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  • 1.00 Credits

    This new elective will offer students understanding of the use of music, in this class, drumming to increase and tune into recognition and improved communication with themselves and then patients. No prior music education or training is necessary.
  • 7.50 Credits

    Required 3rd year clerkship The clerkship is designed to introduce the students to basic psychiatry through intensive clinical experiences, didactic lectures and self-instructional materials. Students learn to recognize and treat patients with psychiatric disorders and to assist in the treatment of psychiatric emergencies. The major emphasis in this competency-based curriculum is on development of psychiatric skills for the primary care physician. Students serve a six-week rotation on one of the following services: Child Psychiatric Services, Norton Psychiatric Clinic, Emergency Psychiatry, University Hospital Inpatient Service, Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, Adult Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry, VA Medical Center or the Trover Clinic in Madisonville, KY. Students are expected to participate in case conferences, attend seminars, attend weekly departmental grand rounds and participate in the daily schedule of the clinical services to which they are assigned. Each student is also assigned emergency room duties on nights and weekends. Objectives for the course are outlined at the beginning of each rotation.
  • 1.00 - 16.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PSY-901; an expressed interest in psychiatry or a special interest in the behavioral and psychological aspects of medicine; an interview with the Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry. The senior honors program in psychiatry is an advanced clinical elective for students interested in psychiatry or the mind-body interaction in medicine. The program is designed to provide an intensive educational experience in psychiatry and behavioral medicine. Once selected for the honors program, the student will select a faculty preceptor who will supervise the student's activities. The student will choose either a research track or a clinical track for the honors program. Research Track: The student will develop and implement a research project under faculty supervision or become an active participant in an on-going research project. Clinical Track: The student will undertake intensive supervised clinical work with the faculty preceptor. The student should accept a level of responsibility in clinical work equivalent to that of a first year resident. Goals and objectives will be developed by the student and the faculty preceptor.
  • 1.00 - 16.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PSY-901 Clinical experience will be obtained in various psychiatric practices or programs in rural Kentucky. The student will be encouraged to participate in the community to gain an understanding of how the community characteristics affect medical care delivery.
  • 1.00 - 16.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PSY-901 This elective allows the student to obtain clinical experience in the private practice of a local psychiatrist. The program must be approved by the Clerkship Director following the Regulations Governing Off-Campus Electives/Rotations described in the General Information section of the Clinical Phase Curriculum Book.
  • 1.00 - 16.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: PSY-901 A clinical experience may be obtained in an approved program in psychiatry under the supervision of a full-time member of the faculty of a duly recognized educational or research institution. The program must be approved by the Clerkship Director following the Regulations Governing Off-Campus Electives/Rotations described in the General Information section of the Clinical Phase Curriculum Book.
  • 1.00 - 16.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Psy-901 This is a research elective for clinical students. Each student will be assigned to a faculty member to work on a mutually agreed upon research activity pertaining to clinical psychiatry. At the end of the elective the student will be required to write a paper describing their work.
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: 4th year standing All students will function as acting interns with faculty supervision. Students will be assisted in selecting cases to be followed. During the first week of the rotation students will conduct diagnostic workups of new patients. During weeks two through four the students will follow selected patients for brief psychotherapy and/or pharmacotherapy, participate in regularly scheduled clinic activities (e.g. team meetings, med check clinics, ER). Students also may participate in specialty clinics (e.g. mood disorder and anxiety disorder). Interested students will have the opportunity to participate in forensic evaluations. All cases will have 1:1 student/preceptor supervision and the students will meet twice weekly with faculty for one-hour supervision. All students will have a reading list and will participate in team meetings and case conferences.
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