units
MRU0021
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
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Faculty
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Coordinator(s)
Offered
Alfred Hospital
Box Hill
Moe
Notting Hill
Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry are the study of the medical specialisation concerned with diagnosing, preventing and treating diseases and disorders of the mind. This detailed field may include assessing patients' psychiatric states, child psychiatry, developmental psychiatry, and psychotherapy. This unit is 100% research with a view to producing a thesis.
Thesis assessed by two external examiners.