Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Compare the epidemiology of mental disorders to other medical conditions and recognize the impact on disability and quality of life across the lifespan.
• Compare and contrast psychiatry with other clinical disciplines with respect to diagnosis and etiology.
• Use PBL cases from prior sub-units to identify psychiatric perspectives in these cases.
• Describe how dysfunction in particular areas of the brain may present with particular psychiatric syndromes.
• Describe examples of medical conditions and substances that may present with prominent psychiatric signs and symptoms.
• Explain the rationale behind the five steps to differential diagnosis.

Assessments

• MF4 Brain and Behaviour CAE

Tags

Diagnosis Epidemiology Etiology Brain and Behaviour Medical Foundation 4 Part 4 Week 1 Part 4 Week 9 Psychiatry Assessment/Diagnosis Depressed Mood Mania / Hypomania Personality Disorders Substance Use or Addictive Disorders 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. 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. Psychotic Disorders [F03.700.675] Antipsychotic Agents [D27.505.696.277.950.040] Depression [F01.145.126.350] Diagnosis, Differential [E01.171] Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [L01.453.245.945.200] Mental Disorders [F03] Mental Health Services [N02.421.461] Psychiatry [F04.096.544] Psychopharmacology [F04.096.712] Psychotherapy [F04.754] Quality of Life [I01.800] Substance-Related Disorders [C25.775] Substance-Related Disorders [F03.900]