PSY 1806 PSYCHIATRY CORE CLERKSHIP
An intensive six-week rotation in psychiatry actively involves the student in a variety of psychiatric services. Students are assigned to two three-week sites for their primary clerkship experiences. These sites include inpatient psychiatry, consultation/liaison psychiatry, community health care, and emergency psychiatry in a variety of hospital settings, including Parkland, UT Southwestern University Hospitals, Dallas VA Medical Center, Children’s, and Metrocare. These primary clerkship experiences are supplemented by mentored sessions in outpatient psychiatry and emergency psychiatry. Students also are able to see clinical care unique to psychiatry, such as electroconvulsive therapy. In addition to diverse clinical exposure, students also spend one two half-days a week in didactic teaching sessions focusing on the diagnosis and biopsychosocial treatment of psychiatric disorders, attend reflection rounds, and a simulated case. Students attend weekly departmental Grand Rounds and participate in teaching conferences on their primary service site.