The clerkship is 4 weeks long. Your team will be responsible for all of the care for patients in the first two groups. Many patients seen on admitting nights will fall into the 3rd group. You will examine some of these patients and discuss their diagnosis and treatment plan with the resident and the private doctor. It is also probably the location in the area where the staff are most accustomed to managing severely ill patients with a primary psychiatric diagnosis.
Call is roughly once a week.
Students take call with the resident to whom they are assigned at both locations, including on weekends. At MPC they will usually send you home between 10pm and midnight when the action slows down. At Pavilion you should go home at midnight. Keep track of all patients you see on the log form we provide. We provide you a form to use for this purpose.