MF4 Brain and Behaviour Mental Status Examination
Assessment
End-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
End-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
Complete written Mental Status Exam based on an online video clip and submit for evaluation.
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour / Medical Foundation 4 / Part 4 / Week 4
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Objectives
General Objectives
- Understand the components of the mental status exam and its place within a full patient history.
- Be able to identify and describe core psychiatric phenomenology.
- Understand the difference between process and content and the role that both play in informing the mental status exam and differential diagnosis.
- Be able to elicit core psychiatric symptomatology during a patient encounter (i.e. mood, anxiety, psychosis, suicide and homicide risk) and have developed a core set of screening questions.
- Be able to complete an accurate written mental status exam.
Activities
Clinical Skills Sessions
- Assessment of mood and anxiety
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Assessment of Psychosis & Delirium
- Teaching OSCE (Psychology)
e-Learning Module
- MSE part 1: Assessment of mood and anxiety
- MSE part 2: Assessment of psychosis
- MSE part 3: Assessment of suicide and violence risk
- Intro to the Mental Status Exam
Tags
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour
Medical Foundation 4
Part 4
Week 4
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Week 12
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Anxiety
Depressed Mood
Mania / Hypomania
Personality Disorders
Psychosis
Suicidal Behavior
McMaster Professional Competency
Clinical Skills
MeSH
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Interview, Psychological [F04.669.599]
Mental Status Schedule [F04.586.574]
