The Psychiatric Interview and mental status exam
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Interviewing techniques. Review of Psychiatric Interview. Risk Assessment. Cognitive Assessment
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Conduct a general interview: learn specific skills that convey empathy. Take a psychiatric history in an empathic manner that enables the assessment of relevant psychological, medical and social factors. Adapt their interview techniques to deal with common sorts of "special" situations/patients (e.g., children, the elderly, those who don't speak English, those with communication or cognitive problems, use of interpreters, family members for collateral, etc.). Adapt their interview techniques to deal with common sorts of "challenging" styles (e.g., silent, over-talkative, angry, seductive, suspicious, passive, dependent, defensive, evasive patients, or those who deny they need help).
- Perform a mental status examination of a patient with psychiatric illness.
- Conduct a suicide risk assessment and management.
- Demonstrate proficiency in documentation and communication in psychiatry.
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Mental Status Examination
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making
MCC Presentations
Suicidal Behavior
McMaster Professional Competency
Clinical Skills
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.
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Suicide [F01.145.126.980.875]
Interview, Psychological [F04.669.599]
Mental Status Schedule [F04.586.574]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Violence [I01.880.735.900]
