MED4008

Psychological medicine

(MED)

Professor D O0Connor

5 hours (lectures and seminars) in introductory week as well as a 3-week hospital attachment (term three)

Synopsis: Seminar teaching (integrative teaching program, terms one and two) in relation to psychiatric illness is extended with further seminars in the introductory week of term three. All students subsequently spend three weeks attached to a clinical unit in a selected psychiatric hospital, with involvement in seminars, patient admission and clerking, bedside clinical tutorials and direct observation of clinicians at work.

Assessment: Case presentation: 5% (of final mark)