Emphasis will also be placed on developing professional attributes to enable the student to become a capable, conscientious, and ethical practitioner. Elective opportunities in child psychiatry, consultation psychiatry, and other specialized areas will be available during the rotation. The fourth year offers a two-week clerkship on drug and alcohol disorders, which is required for all students. The student will develop a general fund of information about disorders of alcohol and other psychoactive substances. Students will develop skills in assessing, diagnosing and treating acute phases of illness, such as managing withdrawal by detoxification protocols, as well as participating in rehabilitation programs that promote abstinence and restoration of functioning.
Elective courses cover a wide range of options in the fourth year.
Established electives in child and adolescent psychiatry, consultation psychiatry, and advanced clinical experience in inpatient psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, general outpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy, and partial hospitalization programs including an intensive group therapy based program, are all available. Electives for clinical research and other scholarly activities can be arranged with individual faculty members. In addition, special electives can be created with concurrence of a supervising faculty member to provide clinical and research opportunities in the student's area of interest within psychiatry.