Emphasis is placed on efficient, cost-effective medical care in a variety of settings. Prevention, behavioral aspects of care, and cultural competence will be stressed. Students will visit a variety of sites for alternative delivery of health care. Morning education sessions will also be conducted at SUMC and afternoons will be spent attending patients in a family practice office in the Bay Area. Students also learn assessment, become familiar with health maintenance as it applies to children, develop sensitivity to the interrelationships of children with their families and environment, and learn diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to common pediatric problems.
Students also participate in diagnosis and treatment of pediatric and adolescent problems.
Psyc 300A. Psychiatry Core Clerkship is designed to solidify the knowledge students have acquired in Psyc 201 and Psyc 204 courses, while helping students gain practical skills in the application of this knowledge to clinical situations. The core clerkship experience will focus on interviewing skills, psychiatric evaluation, on refining diagnostic skills, and give an overview of psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatment modalities for the major psychiatric disorders. The clerkship consists of work on inpatient units or in outpatient clinics under the supervision of academic and clinical faculty, a weekly lecture series by academic faculty, interviewing seminars taught by voluntary clinical faculty, and attendance at Grand Rounds. Although students will be given the opportunity to express their preferences regarding assignment, the final rotation assignment will be determined by the department based on availability of sites. Students will be advised of the specific clerkship requirements at the orientation offered at the start of each clerkship period.