Psychiatry Core Clerkship

Course Number: MEDE 8409
Clerkship Length: 4 Weeks
Psychiatry COMAT required

Syllabus available in Canvas

This psychiatric clinical rotation course will equip each student with basic diagnostic skills for common child, adolescent and adult diagnoses.  You will gain an understanding of normal child development and adult human behavior.  You will also be able to formulate a treatment plan, both with medications and various other forms of therapies for each of the common childhood and adult diagnoses described in The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

While on the Psychiatry clerkship, students will have the opportunity to maintain a patient list of diagnoses, complete a reflection paper, and attend weekly didactic sessions.

Clerkship Coordinator:
TBD
ClinicalEducation@unthsc.edu

UNT Health: (817-735-2537)

Clerkship Director:
David Do, DO
David.Do@unthsc.edu