PSY 701 Core Clerkship: Psychiatry
The core psychiatry clerkship provides basic medical and didactic exposure to the major psychiatric disorders focusing on their diagnosis and management. Emphasis is placed on aspects of psychiatry relevant to the primary practitioner with a holistic approach to patient care, recognizing the significant biological, psychological, and social/environmental factors contributing to the patient's illness. Systems concepts of care are presented in an integrated manner through graded, intensive clinical experiences. Inpatient settings employed for assignment of patient responsibility include general adult, intensive adult, consultation-liaison services, and clinical research. Outpatient settings include Stroger Hospital, and clinical research at the Treatment Research Center at Rush. Prerequisites none. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

PSY 783 Research in Psychiatry
The student will be exposed to basic clinical psychiatric research and be involved with patients with a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders. Most of the research is based on using medical treatment that is investigational. The objectives of this clerkship are to become familiar with basic clinical research, including use of psychiatric rating scales, and basic research design. Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

PSY 792 Psychosomatic Medicine
This elective is designed for senior students interested in the internal medicine/psychiatry residency or psychiatry in a consultation/liaison setting. Adults hospitalized on medical, surgical, obstetric, and neurological services are studied with supervised diagnostic evaluation and continuing management. Integration of medical, psychological, and family issues are emphasized, including the role of the milieu-home, community, and hospital. Special work is done with dialysis patients, transplant patients, patients with malignancy, and those undergoing intensive care. The elective is planned as an experience in all areas, with emphasis depending upon student interest and needs. Those interested in the combined internal medicine/psychiatry residency may choose to have additional experiences to acquaint them with the residency and this combined approach to patient care. Students may also enroll in this clerkship for six weeks by contacting the Office of Medical Student Programs. Prerequisites: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 or 6 weeks]

PSY 793 Child Psychiatry
Students will work with the treatment teams of the 4 Kellogg Child Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, the Rush Therapeutic Day School, the Medication Clinic, a residential treatment center for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed students and outpatient services for children and adolescents. The student will attend seminars in child development, psychopathology, psychopharmacology and therapeutic modalities. The student will participate in multidisciplinary staffing's case conferences, departmental grand rounds and the journal club. Optional experience in school consultation at a therapeutic school for autistic children, and forensic consultant at the Juvenile Detention Center is available. Students will be supervised by faculty members and child psychiatry fellows. Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

PSY 794 Adult Psychiatry
The objective of this elective is to increase the student's knowledge of various psychiatric disorders and to improve knowledge and skills in drug therapy, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, and group therapy. Emphasis is placed on crisis management and brief therapy in inpatient settings (open unit-13 Kellogg, closed unit-12 Kellogg). Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

PSY 795 Geriatric Psychiatry
Objectives of this rotation are: to increase the amount of experience in treating elderly patients with psychiatric diagnostic skills, and the use of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy with elderly patients; to learn the psychological changes that accompany the aging process; and to become familiar with normal and abnormal states and processes in the elderly. These objectives are accomplished via: 1) readings in the field of Geriatric Psychiatry, and 2) direct treatment of selected patients with supervision by attending psychiatrists, fellows and residents. Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]