MPM2012

Social and cultural psychiatry (semester 2)

Professor D O'Connor and Dr Eng Seong Tan

Synopsis Seminars aim to present candidates with perspectives that may not have been prominent in their hospital-based psychiatric training to date. Topics include the study of mental disorder in other cultures; the practice of psychiatry in a multi-cultural setting; the basic principles of epidemiology and the association between mental disorder and social events and relationships. Candidates are asked to prepare presentations on key areas thus promoting self-directed learning of the theoretical and clinical aspects of this subject.

Assessment Written examination (90 mins): 100%

Recommended texts

Henderson A S An introduction to social psychiatry OUP, 1988