Subject: Psychiatry
Course Number: 140.01P
Course Title: Advanced Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry - VAMC-SF
Units: 6
School: Medicine
Department: Psychiatry
Course Description: This elective allows students to learn about providing psychiatric consultation to their colleagues on the inpatient medical-surgical wards. Common diagnoses include delirium, dementia, and depressive and personality disorders. Medicolegal issues, such as decision-making capacity and mental health holds, also arise frequently. Students will also have the opportunity to see outpatients in clinics with a psychiatry subspecialty focus, such as geriatric psychiatry, PTSD, and addiction.
Prerequisites: Psychiatry 110, Neurology 110, and Medicine 110.
Restrictions: Final Year
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Quarter(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course Grading Convention: P/NP (Pass/Not Pass) or S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Graduate Division course: No
Is this a web-based online course? No
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? No
Repeat course for credit? No