Geriatric and Medical Psychiatry
Activity
Tutorial
Tutorial
Demonstrate an understanding of the interface between psychiatry and medicine and the importance of identifying and treating psychiatric illness in medical patients. Discuss how medications can result in mood disorders and how to identify and treat mood disorders in medical patients. Discuss the importance of multi-disciplinary care in the treatment of patients with medical and psychiatric illness as well as issues such as addiction and chronic pain. Discuss the potential medical implications of treatment with SSRI medications. List some pharmacokinetic changes associated with aging. Identify cognitive changes associated with aging. Describe some common bed side cognitive assessment tools.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Geriatric and Cognitive Disorders: geriatric age-related mood, psychosis, anxiety disorders; Delirium and Dementia
- Medical Psychiatry
Assessments
Clerkship Tutorial Evaluation
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Geriatrics
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Delirium
Depressed Mood
Generalized Pain Disorders
Major/Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia)
Substance Use or Addictive Disorders
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.3 Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice
1.4 Make informed decision about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment
1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
MeSH
Aged [M01.060.116.100]
Aged, 80 and over [M01.060.116.100.080]
Aging [G07.345.124]
Antidepressive Agents [D27.505.954.427.700.122]
Chronic Pain [C23.888.592.612.274]
Delirium [F01.700.250.500]
Mental Disorders [F03]
Mood Disorders [F03.600]
Neurocognitive Disorders [F03.615]
Patient Care Team [N04.590.715]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Referral and Consultation [N04.452.758.849]
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors [D27.505.519.625.600.850]
