Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Psychotic Disorders
• Mood Disorders (including in post-partum, seasonal, GMC)
• Anxiety Disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Substance Use Disorders (including concurrent disorders, and screening assessment tools e.g. CAGE, AUDIT, MAST)
• Geriatric and Cognitive Disorders: geriatric age-related mood, psychosis, anxiety disorders; Delirium and Dementia
• Child and Adolescent Psych (pediatric manifestation of common disorders, pediatric tx issues and their controversies): Neurodevelopmental disorders: intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, genetic syndromes ( e.g. Down, Fragile X, Fetal Alcohol), learning and communication disorders, AD/HD and treatments. Disruptive behaviour disorders (ODD, CD) Mood and anxiety disorders (incl. separation and school anxiety, and DMDD), use of SSRI in pediatric population Eating disorders. Key points in assessment of child and family functioning.
• Somatoform disorders
• Medical Psychiatry
• Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
• Other: Impulse control disorders, Factitious Disorder and Malingering
• Assess and manage other psychiatric emergencies/crises and acute presentations: toxidromes and withdrawal; overdoses: (e.g. TCA, acetaminophen); severe drug reactions: NMS, sertonin syndrome, dystonia; medical conditions with possible psychiatric presentation (e.g. catatonia, delirium)
• Assess sleep history and provide counselling.
• Assessment of cognitive deficits (and use of screening instruments e.g. MMSE, MOCA, etc.).
• Recommend medication management, monitoring and counselling, including: Classes of psychiatric medications and their indications. Medication counselling: indications, choice, side effects, etc. Pre-medication work-up. Medication monitoring and work-up. Side effects (blood tests and physical e.g. AIMS). Metabolic syndromes and monitoring. Special populations (pediatric, geriatric, pregnancy). Acute syndromes/reactions (NMS, dystonia, serotonin syndrome, toxicity).
• Assess the appropriateness for and recommend ECT and TMS: indications for use, side effects.

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Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation Psychiatry 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.