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Psychiatry Clerkship

This guide will assist students in finding appropriate sources to complete learning objectives in the Psychiatry Clerkship.

Case Research Tools

Objective:

Using the DSM-5-TR to identify specific signs and symptoms that are the basis for diagnosis of psychiatric syndromes and disorders.

Look here:
DSM-5-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version 5 with Text Revisions)

 

Objective:

Discuss the clinical features, differential diagnosis, and evaluation of condition or disease.

Look here:
AccessNeurology - clinical features and medical causes for symptoms of hallucinations, etc.
Clinical Key - clinical features
Dynamed - differential diagnosis
LWW Clerkship Health Library - textbooks, including "Psychiatric Interviewing," case studies and practice questions.
          DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis- (From Psychiatry Online)- includes diagnostic frameworks, decision trees, and differential diagnosis tables.

 

 

Objective:

Identify indications, basic mechanisms of action and pharmacokinetics, common and serious side effects, signs of toxicity, and the guidelines for prescribing the basic classes of psychotropic medications

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Faculty suggested: American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology
AccessPharmacy - has  mechanisms of action and pharmacodynamics/kinetics
Access Medicine Drug Monographs
ClinicalKey Drug Monographs (Gold Standard)
DynaMed (selected Micromedex info)
Schatzberg's Manual of Pharmacology

 

Objective:

Following participation in the basic science learning activities, the learner will be able to utilize basic science knowledge to advance their clinical training in psychiatry by knowing the mechanisms associated with pathology and drug action.

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Identify Lithium’s effect on intracellular inositol levels book chapter on the topic
Identify the biochemical mechanism of acute dystonia as it relates to antipsychotic therapy book chapter on topic
Identify the effect ketamine has on brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) book chapter on topic

 

Objective:

Obtain information from patients in a manner that produces a minimum of discomfort for the patient, even topics of items that may be embarrassing or anxiety provoking

Look here:
The Psychiatric Interview, 5edition  (textbook from LWW Clerkship Health Library)
           Understanding Mental Disorders: Your Guide to DSM-5-TR (textbook from Psychiatry Online)