PSY 45010 - Private Practice with Focus on Mood Disorders

Cr Hrs: 3, 6
Session Length: 2 and 4 weeks

This is a face to face clinical rotation receiving 3 or 6 credit hours. The student should function with increased autonomy in patient care and must demonstrate competency in several of the Entrustable Professional Activities required for graduation. The objectives for this course are to familiarize students with diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric adult patients in hospital, day hospital, and outpatient settings. The students will see around 15-20 patients per day, but will focus in-depth on 3-4 per week throughout their stay. Students will be part of a treatment team. They will not write in the chart, but will participate with the attending in formulating the treatment plan and in the structure of the documentation in each patient’s chart. There is full-time supervision by the course coordinator or his associates. In addition to patient care, the students will attend structured activities such as, Bipolar Spectrum lectures, transformative skills courses, suicide prevention courses, trauma resolution groups, Bipolar Spectrum multi-family groups, and addiction groups.

Grade Mode: Standard

Instructional Method: Clinical-Elective
Location offered: Memphis
Hospital: Lakeside Behavioral Hospital
Prerequisites: Completion of 5 CORE Clerkships inclusive of PSY-30000

Term offered: Fall, Spring

Fall - Instructor of Record: Khyati Kothari - kkothari@uthsc.edu
Spring - Instructor of Record: Khyati Kothari - kkothari@uthsc.edu
Course Coordinator: Terika Miller - tmille20@uthsc.edu - 901-448-4561

Website: https://www.uthsc.edu/Medicine/medicaleducation/clerkships/descriptions/psychiatry.php
Prior Authorization: Yes
Blocks Not Offered: None
Off-cycle timing allowed: No
Deadline for Excused Absence: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Deadline for Cancellation: Thirty days before start of elective/rotation
Overnight Call and/or Float: No
Time off for interviews: Yes-Students may be allowed some time off provided they contact the administrator at least 4 weeks prior to the onset of the rotation.