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Movement Disorders and Cognitive Assessment
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
To review the common movement disorders relevant to psychiatry. A general approach to management of the specific disorders. To review the key components of cognitive assessment.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant

Objectives

Clerkship Objectives
  • Assessment of cognitive deficits (and use of screening instruments e.g. MMSE, MOCA, etc.).

Tags

Curriculum Block
Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Major or mild neurocognitive disorders (dementia)
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. 1.4 Make informed decision about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]

Related Activities

The following activities occur in the same curriculum block:

  • Psychiatric Clinical Skills
  • Psychosis Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse Disorder
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Personality Disorder
  • Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy
  • Agitated/aggressive patient

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