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Course 462: Psychiatry - Understanding and Treating Common Psychiatric Disorders

Welcome to Course 462: Psychiatry at King Saud University College of Medicine. This course aims to provide medical students with the knowledge and skills needed to identify, treat, and refer patients with common psychiatric disorders. Topics covered include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and behavioral sciences, as well as proper medical communication and self-development. The course includes didactic lectures, interview skills sessions, subject discussions, case scenario discussions, and patient clinical discussions. Assessment will be done through continuous assessment tests and a final examination.

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Course 462: Psychiatry - Understanding and Treating Common Psychiatric Disorders

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  1. King Saud UniversityCollege of MedicinePsychiatry Department Course 462 Psych. Educational committee 1432-1433 2011-2012

  2. Welcome To course 462- Psych PSYCHIATRY

  3. What is Psychiatry ? Medicine Psychology Psychiatry sociology

  4. WHY DO YOU NEED PSYCHIATRY? 1 Better patients care. 2 Better medical communication. 3 Self-development.

  5. Prerequisites Neuroanatomy Neurophysiology Neuropharmacology Behavioral Sciences

  6. TREATMENT PATIENTS MISCONCEPTIONS PSYCHIATRISTS CAUSES

  7. SKILLS KNOWLEDGE 462 PSYCH ATTITUDE

  8. TREATMENT PATIENTS ATTITUDE CAUSES PSYCHIATRISTS

  9. SKILLS • How to perform properly. • Requirements : 1. Understanding basics 2. Observing a skill done properly 3. Trying it repeatedly ---perfect

  10. As a medical students I need to study: • Common psychiatric disorders • Treatable psychiatric disorders ….OR • Serious psychiatric disorders

  11. What are the expectations? • To have safe non-psychiatric doctors who can: • Identify (common, treatable or serious) psychiatric co-morbidities. • Treat or follow up mild/stable psychiatric disorders. • Refer the patient to psychiatry service whenever needed. • To recruit some medical students to psychiatry sub -speciality.

  12. 462 COURSE OVERVIEW • The course lasts for 6 weeks and contains: • Nineteen didactic lectures, in the first two weeks . • Seven interview skills sessions, in the first two weeks • Eight subject discussions, weeks 3 – 5 . • Eight case scenario discussions, weeks 5 – 6. • Patient clinical discussions. (in-patient, outpatient, consultation-liaison, child psychiatry, other live patient case discussions or video cases) weeks 3 - 6. • Outpatient clinics and ward rounds attendance weeks 2 - 5.

  13. COURSE ASSESSMENT & EXAMINATION • Continuous Assessment Test (CAT): 40 Marks • 40 questions; Single Best Answer applied clinical cases. • CAT is held in the forth week. • Final Examination: 60 Marks • An oral OSCE exam to be conducted by one examiner on the basis of a pre-proposed case vignettes for 10 minutes, each student will have two cases and will be held in the sixth week; a Saturday morning and afternoon. (20 marks). • A modified assay questions OSCE exam of five stations, four questions twelve minutes each and will be held in the sixth week; a Sunday morning. (40 marks). • The pass mark is 60 out of 100.

  14. COURSE REFERENCES • All course activities…both theoretical & clinical. • Basic Psychiatry – Professor M. A. Al-Sughayir • First Aid for the Psychiatry Clerkship, Third Edition- Latha Stead, Matthew Kaufman,  Jason Yanofski. • Textbook of Psychiatry, by Linford Rees, Oxford University Press. • Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry by Kaplan & Sadock, Williams & Wilkins. • Emergency Psychiatry by Allen, Micheal. American Psychiatric Press. • Clinical Manual to Psychosomatic Medicine: A guide to Consultation-liaison Psychiatry (Concise Guide), By Michael Wise & James Rundle, American Psychiatric Publishing. • E-medicine medscape, & others

  15. As a medical students I need to study: • Common psychiatric disorders • Treatable psychiatric disorders ….OR • Serious psychiatric disorders

  16. COURSE EVALUATION • Your evaluation is highly apprecaited. • Kindly evaluate both the course & the tutors at the end of the course. • Course organizer & course co-organizer will be happy to help you whenever you need.

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