PSY 701 Core Clerkship: Psychiatry
Provides basic medical and didactic exposure to major psychiatric disorders focusing on diagnosis and management. Emphasis on aspects of psychiatry relevant to primary practitioner with a holistic approach to patient care, recognizing significant biological, psychological, and social/environmental factors contributing to the patient's illness. Systems concepts of care are presented in a 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 John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County 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 is exposed to basic clinical psychiatric research and will 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 objective of this clerkship is 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
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 the medical, psychological, family issues is 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. 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. Prerequisites: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 or 6 weeks]

PSY 793 Child Psychiatry
Students will work with the treatment teams of the child psychiatric inpatient unit, the day school, the medication clinic and outpatient services for children and adolescents. Students attend seminars in child development, psychopathology and therapeutic modalities. They also participate in multidisciplinary staffings, case conferences, departmental grand rounds, journal club and clinical forum. Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

PSY 794 Adult Psychiatry
The objective is to increase student's knowledge of various psychiatric disorders and improve knowledge and skills in drug therapy, individual psychotherapy, family therapy and group therapy. Emphasis on crisis management and brief therapy in inpatient settings. Prerequisite: PSY 701. FA WI SP SU [4 or 8 weeks]

PSY 795 Geriatric Psychiatry
Rotation objectives: 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; 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]