Psychiatry

Courses

MDR 843: Cancer Psychiatry

Credits 2

The Psych-Oncology Service at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center provides comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment for individuals with cancer across all phases of illness, including initial diagnosis, active treatment, recurrence, survivorship, advanced disease, and end-of-life care. Services are delivered in both ambulatory oncology clinics and inpatient settings, including the acute oncology units and the bone marrow transplant unit at Sylvester.

This elective offers medical students the opportunity to participate in the inpatient Consultation-Liaison service in Psycho-Oncology at the University of Miami Hospital. Students will gain direct experience in the psychiatric care of patients with cancer, while working closely with a multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, oncologists, licensed clinical social workers, and palliative care physicians. The rotation emphasizes the integration of psychiatric principles into oncological care, providing students with exposure to complex clinical scenarios that highlight the psychological, social, and medical dimensions of cancer care.

MDR 872: Introduction to Geriatric Psychiatry

Credits 2
The Department of Psychiatry offers an elective in Geriatric Psychiatry. The elective can be tailored to the student’s special needs. Clinical experiences focus on diseases that are more prevalent in the geriatric population such as psychoses in the elderly, mood disorders in the elderly, delirium and cognitive disorders.

MDR 874: Introduction to Inpatient Psychiatry

Credits 2
This elective allows students to diagnose and manage a variety of psychiatric disorders. This includes patients with mood disorders, psychotic disorders and other conditions that require psychiatric hospitalization. Under the supervision of attending physicians, students will manage patients with a variety of therapeutic techniques available for their treatment.

MDR 901: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Credits 2
Various clinical services are utilized for undergraduate and post-graduate training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: The Children’s Inpatient Unit and the Child & Adolescent Outpatient Clinic. Students may be assigned to one or a combination of these services where they will have a supervised experience.

MDR 902: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Credits 2

The JMH CL Psychiatry service is responsible for psychiatric consultations to medical and surgical inpatients, as well as liaison support to various clinical services and units within the general hospital. Under supervision, students will respond to psychiatric consultation requests by assessing patients and offering recommendations to the referring physicians. They will work alongside residents and faculty in liaison activities and will regularly participate in clinical rounds and educational sessions.

MDR 904: ACE Inpatient Psychiatry

Credits 4

This elective allows students to diagnose and manage a variety of psychiatric disorders. While the focus relies on substance use disorders, senior medical students will also be exposed to a wealth of co-occurring psychiatric diagnosis including mood, psychotic, anxiety disorders and other conditions that require psychiatric hospitalization. Under the supervision of attending physicians, students will manage patients with a variety of therapeutic techniques available for their treatment including pharmacotherapy and basic psychotherapy.

MDR 906: Ambulatory Psychiatry

Credits 2
This course provides students with the opportunity to be involved in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of selected patients presenting to the outpatient clinics at the Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital. Individual supervision will be aimed at exposing the student to the range of psychiatric disorders that can be managed in an outpatient basis such as anxiety disorders, depression, psychosis, ADHD, etc. The students will be exposed to different therapeutic modalities used to treat these problems including psychopharmacologic treatments, and supportive psychotherapy.

MDR 1024: ACE Forensic Psychiatry

Credits 4
This is a 4-week advanced clinical elective intended to expose the senior medical student to a spectrum of experiences in forensic psychiatry. The student will spend a portion of each week in various hospital and community settings that involve the clinical practice of aspects of forensic psychiatry.