Warning

Region: South

Undergraduate Tutor: Contact University of Glasgow for information.

Tel: Contact University of Glasgow for information.

Initial base: Leverndale Hospital 


Possible Placements: 

  • Leverndale Hospital – 0141 201 6400
  • Florence Street Resource Centre - 0141 232 7000
  • Barrhead Health Centre - 0141 800 7005
  • The Eastwood Centre - 0141 304 750
  • Brand Street Resource Centre - 303 8900
  • Eastvale Resource Centre - 0141 531 4117
  • Shawmill Resource Centre - 0141 577 7720
  • Stewart Centre, Castlemilk - 634 5430
  • Elderpark Clinic, 20 Arklet Road - 232 7133
  • Rossdale Resource Centre, Haughburn Road - 232 4750
  • Clinic E, New Victoria Hospital, Grange Road - 0141 634 5430

 

South Glasgow Psychiatry Activities

 
 

During your time in psychiatry alongside shadowing your consultants timetable, you should aim to cover the following:-

  • Spend the morning with the liaison psychiatry team at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
    • Contact liaison psychiatry via switchboard
  • ECT
  • Shadow Leverndale duty doctor
  • Kershaw Unit addictions in-patient
    • Contact duty doctor at Kershaw Unit, Gartnavel
    • Take a history/clerk an in-patient
  • Carry out at least 1 full cognitive assessment on the old age wards
    • Contact: Beith, Banf & Balmore wards, Leverndale
  • Desk duty worker CMHT
    • Spend the day (any day) with the CMHT desk duty worker
  • Aim to have at least 1 home visit with members from each discipline of the MDT
    • Contact workers at the CMHT
  • You should spend as much time as possible on the acute adult wards taking patient histories and carrying out mental state examinations

 

Editorial Information

Last reviewed: 29/04/2024

Next review date: 24/05/2027

Author(s): MyPsych Editorial Group.

Version: 1.0

Author email(s): mypsych@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.

Approved By: MyPsych Editorial Group

Reviewer name(s): MyPsych Editorial Group.