Teaching
Clerkship in Psychiatry (6 weeks and one week of examination vacation)
The first week of the clerkship will be dedicated to the acquaintance to psychopathology and major psychiatric disorders. The student will receive knowledge, understanding and skills of observation, interviewing and synthesis. The students will be able to describe various behaviors and syndromes in psychiatry, both from the perspective of the patient, his family, the therapist and society in general.
The student should achieve a global assessment and overview of the patient's feelings and symptoms, should be able to make a "wise" differential diagnosis and suggest a treatment based on biopsychosocial principles. This should be achieved in patients with psychiatric symptoms, both in the psychiatric setting and in the general medicine setting.
The learning will be based mainly on exposure to clinical cases (bedside teaching by clinical instructors), but also will include lectures, discussion on theoretical causes, etc.
During the first weeks of the clerkship, the student will increase his knowledge and skills regarding psychopathology, classification in psychiatry, technique of psychiatric interview and will get to know patients on the ward. Afterwards, students will be assigned several patients and will have to know them in detail, as regards personal history, family background, psychiatric history and treatment plan. The students will accompany them during the hospitalization and examine their progress and change, as well as the relationship established between student and patient.
The student will obtain a detailed anamnesis with a special emphasis on illness development, the causes of the illness and the link between patients' life and their primary symptoms. The natural course of psychiatric illnesses should be recognized as well as the spectrum between pathology and normality.
The teaching will review issues of the therapist-patient relationship and the feelings aroused in patients and therapists, as well as those aroused among staff. The student will visit outpatient facilities, children and adolescents units, and also consultation liaison services. The students will attend lectures, seminarions, staff meetings and will meet with patients, both alone and with staff members.
Compulsory Reading:
Sadock BJ & Sadock VA, Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 10th edition, Philadelphia, 2007.
Elizur A, Tyano S, Munitz h & Neumann M, Selected chapters in Psychiatry. (Hebrew) Papyrus Publications, 2002.
Selected articles in Psychiatry, Harefuah, vol. 1-3.
The grade of the clerkship will consist of 1/3 of the final grade, while the oral exam and the written exam (multiple choice questions) will constitute another third each. The examination will assess subjects studied in the clerkship and additional issues from the clerkship's literature.
Postgraduate Education:
Residents participate in a three-year program of four hours per week. The program includes lectures in psychiatry and neurology, and also courses in psychotherapy.