1 MCG Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Service includes patients ages 18 and over. Diagnoses include depression, anxiety, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, substance abuse, dementia and many others. Students are not required to take overnight call, however they will be expected to make rounds one weekend during the 6-week block. In addition to the scheduled clerkship didactic lectures, Tom Flynt, Pharm. D, provides students on the inpatient service, four 1-hour psychopharmacology lectures.
Students also attend the intake in the outpatient clinic.
Students are assigned to a clinic resident with whom they spend one additional afternoon per week participating in medication management and psychotherapy follow-ups. Junior Medical Students rotate on the Adult Admissions Unit, which serves to evaluate, diagnose, stabilizes, and treat acutely psychiatrically unstable adults. Varieties of diagnoses are encountered, including Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse. During this rotation the student will learn how to do psychiatric evaluations and recommend treatment options for patients who are experiencing psychiatric symptoms while undergoing medical or surgical treatment. They will also follow their patients while they are in the hospital.