Overview
Description
Overview
Location
Akron General
Duration
4 Weeks
Number of Students
1
Director(s)
- Michel Farivar, MD.
Description
Objective
- To provide students with opportunities to participate in psychiatric consultation to both medical and surgical patients as part of the consultation/liaison psychiatry service.
- Students will learn to identify and manage psychiatric conditions arising in patients hospitalized for medical and surgical reasons.
- Students will be exposed to excellent learning opportunities at the interface of medicine and mental health.
Description
- Students will participate as a member of the consultation/liaison service which includes faculty, residents, and other medical students.
- There will be opportunities for individual responsibility in the management of patients seen in consultation.
- Students will gain valuable experience in the diagnosis and management of delirium, evaluation of the suicidal patient, supportive psychotherapy for those with serious illnesses, and direction of the multi-disciplinary team in delivering care to patients with severe mental disabilities.
Night call/special requirements
- None.