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Overview: Course Description
For the 2008-2009 Academic Year, site placements will be available for each four-week Pychiatry Clerkship block:
Course Description for 2008-2009 The Department of Psychiatry offers clerkships during all of the twelve 4-week blocks of the academic year 2008-2009. The programs available for completing requirements for the psychiatry clerkship are outlined below: 1. UNC Hospitals
The UNCH clerkship program provides the clinical and supervisory opportunities required for a sound, balanced introduction to clinical psychiatry.
Students are assigned to one of four UNC Hospitals inpatient units or the consult/liaison service, working with assigned patients who vary in age from childhood to late life and who suffer from a wide range of psychiatric illnesses. Students participate in all clinical activities related to the evaluation and treatment of their patients, including interviews with families, participation in treatment and planning conferences, and documenting the care of their patients. Students also study the full range of treatments used in modern psychiatry, including psychotherapy, psychotropic medications, electroconvulsive therapy, and all aspects of care. In addition, students participate in the evaluation of patients with acute psychiatric illnesses in the walk-in clinic and the emergency department. Students participate in the evaluation and management of outpatients in the department’s outpatient clinic. The program supplements the supervised clinical work with seminars and case conferences. The seminar series addresses a wide variety of topics in adult and child psychiatry with an emphasis on the information most pertinent to a primary care physician. Students are assigned to an upper level resident tutor who provides weekly supervised instruction in patient assessment and exposure to outpatient psychiatry.
2. Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte)
The Carolinas Medical Center/Center for Mental Health psychiatric clerkship is designed to meet the educational needs of students embarking upon their first clinical experience in psychiatric medicine.
At Carolinas Medical Center, training is divided between ambulatory care and hospital settings. In outpatient clinics, physicians and allied professionals guide students in the evaluation of patients--ranging in age from preschool to geriatric--who suffer a broad spectrum of psychiatric/medical disorders. In the psychiatric emergency room, students are actively involved in the initial assessment and treatment of patients in crisis. Complementing the outpatient experience are responsibilities on either the adult or adolescent inpatient units where students make important contributions to the care of selected severely ill patients. The Carolinas Medical Center clerkship also provides an introduction to community-based care. Students may visit sites throughout the community where psychiatric medical services are provided--jails, homeless shelters, substance abuse treatment facilities, nursing homes, group homes, etc. Attending psychiatric physicians work closely with students--as clinical supervisors, as individual preceptors and in small group seminars--helping students to hone their interviewing and presentation skills and master a working knowledge of the diagnosis and effective treatment of major psychiatric disorders. Students assigned to CMC will also participate in the core seminar series via teleconference.
Housing for the Carolinas Medical Center rotation is available by advance application on a first come basis through the Charlotte AHEC. Charlotte AHEC now has new apartment units with all amenities available for students. You may view their offering at www.eastoverridge.com. Students may elect to stay with family or friends or otherwise provide their own housing. Students assigned to CMC will be notifed by May 15, 2007, in order that those who will need AHEC housing can submit reservations and the required deposit as soon as possible in order to be assured of housing.
3. New State Psychiatric Hospital (Butner)
Medical students are assigned to one of three units on the Adult Admissions Service. The student will be involved in, and responsible for, all aspects of patient care including diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment, follow-up, and discharge planning. They will work under the direct supervision of an attending physician who will closely monitor their work. Every attempt will be made to assign students to patients with differing diagnoses, thereby ensuring exposure to patients suffering from a wide range of psychopathology. Throughout the rotation, students will be expected to function as a member of the treatment team to which they have been assigned. Students are assigned call in the Screening and Admission Office 7-8 times during daytime hours and 3 times during evening hours; during this time they will participate in the evaluation of patients referred for admission. Throughout the rotation students will meet with their supervisor once per week in a formal session to present their patients, discuss treatment and management problems, or any theoretical issues. In addition, the student and supervisor will meet through the week as needed. During the rotation, the students are given the opportunity to spend time with a psychiatrist in various clinical sites in the hospital such as Geropsychiatry, Long Term Psychiatry, Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. . Students assigned to Butner will also participate in the core seminar series via teleconference.
Students provide their own transportation. Butner is approximately 45 minutes from Chapel Hill and is conveniently located for students residing in the Raleigh and Durham areas. Travel to Butner is not reimbursable. Ample free parking is available for students.
All students on the Psychiatry clerkship will be in Chapel Hill on the last day of their four week block from 12:00 - 3 PM (or the time assigned to our department by ORDEP) to take the NBME Psychiatry Subtest. A passing score on this Subtest is REQUIRED in order to receive a passing grade for the rotation.
Please do not make travel plans, purchase airline tickets, etc., which conflict with the administration of the NBME on the last day of the rotation. Students should notify anyone who might be making travel arrangements for them that they will not be free to leave Chapel Hill until after 3 PM on the last day of their clerkship.
Students should consult the official Third Year Calendar for dates of "Free Weeks" and official holidays.
The director of the medical student programs in Psychiatry is Dr. Anthony Lindsey, and the administrator of the clerkship program is Ms. Myra Daniel. The phone number for the Psychiatric Education Office is 966-6997; Dr. Lindsey’s number is 966-4738. Please feel free to call or e-mail ( mdaniel@med.unc.edu; tlindsey@med.unc.edu ) and ask any questions you may have about sites and/or clerkship options. Mrs. Daniel’s usual office days are Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.
When you have finalized your clerkship dates, please complete the preference form and mail or hand deliver to Student Affairs, 1st Floor, Bondurant Hall, CB #9535. Please be certain that you have completed all the information requested, including the EXACT DATES for your Psychiatry clerkship and a second and third choice of sites for psychiatry. Assignments are not made on a first-come basis. All preference forms are delivered to psychiatry at the same time. The deadline for submitting preference forms is Friday, March 28, 5 PM. Please print your e-mail clearly or you may not get important mailings of information!
Extenuating circumstances will be considered if a note is submitted at the time the student completes the preference form. [Any student with extenuating circumstances or special assignment needs/requests for psychiatry placements must submit a written statement specifying details stapled to their preference form This information will be considered confidential.]
Students not expressing a preference or failing to return the preference form will be randomly assigned to a site.
All preference forms must be returned by 5 PM, Friday, March 28, 2008, to Student Affairs, Bondurant Hall. We do not post assignments. Students may contact our office by e-mail (mdaniel@med.unc.edu) to request their assignment after JUNE 1st . Please do not contact us by phone regarding assignments. Assignments for Block 1 will be available by April 15th and will be e-mailed to students in Block 1.
All students assigned to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte for psychiatry will be notified by e-mail not later than May 15th. Students who receive CMC assignments should submit their housing requests as soon as they receive the assignment to make certain they will be able to obtain AHEC housing. If they delay their request and AHEC housing is full, it will be the student’s responsibility to obtain their own housing. Final assignments (other than CMC) and orientation information will be sent by e-mail not later than 4 weeks prior to the beginning of your clerkship. We do not notify students more than 2 months in advance, except for those going to CMC, due to constantly changing patient census, attending schedules, etc. If you wish to know your tentative assignment before final ones are available, you may contact Mrs. Daniel (mdaniel@med.unc.edu) after June 1st . It is your responsibility to check your e-mail frequently for information & updates .
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