Min:4 Max:15. Writers, the first thinkers to understand the "wholeman," took into account his unconscious. We'll illustrate this as reflected in normal development and personality formation, symbolization, fantasy and psychopathology using the characters and texts from Great Literature. Tuesday evenings.

Grading Basis: Pass Fail with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Min:4 Max:20. Students will learn basics of emergency evaluation with particular focus on suicide, homicide, child abuse, spouse abuse, and incest. Students will see emergency psychiatric consultations with residents, staff or faculty.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Min:6 Max20: In this course students will gain confidence in performing basic H&P skills while interacting with acutely ill patients in a detox facility. Requirements include volunteering a minimum of two shifts, as well as attending the orientation and debriefing sessions.

Grading Basis: Pass Fail with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Fall and Spring. Students will learn basic identification, assessment and treatment of substance abuse disorders through clinical experience, reading, and seminars. Will evaluate patients in 2 afternoon clinics (adolescent and adult treatment program) and 2 seminars. Core reading will supplement clinical experience.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Students take responsibility as primary provider for seriously ill patients, work closely with treatment team directed by an attending psychiatrist. Students assume responsibilities for care of patients that interns typically assume: performing H&Ps, writing orders, giving “bad news” when appropriate.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

2-4 wks. Max:2. In treatment programs, experts' tutorials, and readings, students learn approaches to 6 common primary care substance problems, such as addiction in pain disorders, pregnancy, smoking with tobacco-induced illness, and substance involved adolescents. Students write a paper on the 6 clinical problems. Prereq: Course Director approval required to add course.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Students in conjunction with the office of psychiatry medical student education, choose to work with patients on an inpatient psychiatry ward, outpatient clinic or other psychiatric units as a member of a treatment team.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

4 or 6 wks. This Sub-I course DOES NOT meet the UC SOM requirement for graduation. Evaluate and manage adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Students will be members of multidisciplinary team learning about psychopathology, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, family therapy and other treatment modalities. Students will learn about systems of care. Restrictions: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry a unique discipline within the field of psychiatry which combines knowledge of medical illnesses, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology with an ability to forge liaisons within the medical community. Evaluate and help manage patients with psychiatric disorders within medical settings. Prerequisites: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Learn elements of crisis intervention, and to make psychiatric diagnoses and evaluate lethality. Students will evaluate and help treat a broad range of psychiatric difficulties, and encounter the psychiatric and psychosocial problems they will see in their practices. Prerequisites: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Introduction to the interface of criminal law and psychiatry. Students will be involved in the evaluation of people entering pleas of incompetency to stand trial and not guilty by reason of insanity as well as the treatment and restoration process. Prerequisites: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Learn the essentials of identification, assessment, and treatment of patients with substance use disorders. Emphasis on screening and brief intervention techniques. Learn principles of detoxification for alcohol, opioids, and cocaine; interpretation of drug testing results; proper prescribing practices. Prerequisites: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Evaluate and manage patients with eating disorders under the direction of fellows and attendings. Student will gain specific knowledge of classification, epidemiology, etiology, psysiology, and treatment of eating disorders. Prerequisites: Contact coordinator to confirm availability.

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students will learn about maternal mental health during pregnancy and the first year postpartum, and gain understanding of infant mental health and the mother-baby relationship. Students will work in the following settings: outpatient mom-baby group therapy, psychiatric outpatient clinic, NICU, integrated mental health in OB/GYN and Young Mother's Clinic (pediatric primary care).

Grading Basis: Medical School HP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This Psychiatry elective will be held at a site in Colorado, another state, or internationally. Students must obtain departmental approval one month prior to the start. Additionally, international sites must be preapproved by Student Affairs. Offered 2 or 4 weeks.

Grading Basis: Pass Fail with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

2-12 wks. Research electives in various areas of Psychiatry. Contact Randy Ross, MD or Sharon Hunter, PhD for menu of research options. Prereq: The student must receive prior approval from the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and the course director to add course.

Grading Basis: Pass Fail with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 24.