Psychiatry - MD (PSCHT)

Clinical experience in the management of patients with psychiatric disorders.

The addiction medicine elective is a FOUR-week course typically delivered in Phase III that is designed to enhance comfort with addiction medicine and chronic pain management in the inpatient and outpatient settings. The course will focus on principles of addiction medicine and chronic pain management, with an emphasis on opioids. Course material will be presented in the form of workplace teaching in the clinic and readings from textbooks and online learning modules. Central themes of the course are identification of opioid use disorder in the clinical setting, the role of medications for treatment of substance use disorders, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and outpatient therapy for treatment of addiction as well as non-opiate treatment of chronic pain.

Students are assigned selected adult inpatients and receive close individual supervision in diagnosis and treatment, including psychotherapy and drug therapy.

Students are involved, under faculty supervision, in diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning and implementation of selected child and adolescent outpatients.

Students are involved, under faculty supervision, in diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning and implementation of selected child and adolescent inpatients.

Students evaluate medical/surgical patients where psychiatric consultation is requested and receive supervision in diagnosis and short-term psychiatric treatment.

The application of HSS within Geriatric Psychiatry elective is a two-week elective course designed to provide students an opportunity to apply the various aspects of HSS within the subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry. The elective is aimed at those students looking to expand their knowledge in HSS, as well as their knowledge of the geriatric population with severe mental illness. Students will be embedded within the inpatient psychiatric treatment team and assigned 1-2 patients whose cases they can use as case studies to further explore the core domains of HSS, with a particular emphasis on population health, healthcare structures and processes, and teamwork and interprofessional collaboration. There will also be a community engagement activity in which the student will spend a half day working with an Adult Protective Services worker through the Dauphin County Area on Aging in the community.

Participation in experimental and clinical studies of normal and disordered sleep and the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

Creative projects including nonthesis research, supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

Psychiatry Special Topics.