In addition, the service provides psychiatric evaluations for any patients who come to the MCH Emergency Department with mental illnesses and for patients in the medical and surgical outpatient clinics who need to be seen by a psychiatrist on an urgent basis. Experiences include training in adult consultation-liaison diagnostic assessment, and gaining increased familiarity with acutely medically ill adults with psychiatric conditions. A wide variety of psychiatric illnesses are seen on the service, ranging from depression to delirium to psychosis. The average number of consults seen is thirty-eight per month. The adult consultation-liaison service consists of an attending psychiatrist, who makes rounds at least three days per week with the service, two psychiatry residents, and two medical students.
Additional supervision is available as needed.