Psychiatry Clerkship
Assessment
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
The purpose of the Essential Clinical Experience is to ensure that all students cover high-priority areas longitudinally throughout clerkship.
Curriculum Block
Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Essential Clinical Experience
- Agitated/aggressive patient
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mania
- Personality disorder
- Psychiatric medication-induced adverse/side effects
- Psychosis
- Substance abuse
- Suicidal/homicidal patient
- Assessment of capacity to consent to treatment
- Risk assessment (of suicide/aggression)
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Participate in a discussion about the relationship between health and social factors such as income, housing, gender, race, or disability.
- Participate in a discussion regarding the impact of stigma upon patients with mental illness.
- Participate in the completion of Mental Health Act forms.
Activities
Essential Clinical Experience
- Agitated/aggressive patient
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mania
- Personality disorder
- Psychiatric medication-induced adverse/side effects
- Psychosis
- Substance abuse
- Suicidal/homicidal patient
- Assessment of capacity to consent to treatment
- Risk assessment (of suicide/aggression)
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Participate in a discussion about the relationship between health and social factors such as income, housing, gender, race, or disability.
- Participate in a discussion regarding the impact of stigma upon patients with mental illness.
- Participate in the completion of Mental Health Act forms.
- Primary Presentation
Tags
Curriculum Block
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
McMaster Program Competencies
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
