Section of Psychological Medicine and Key Contacts
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Seminars and teaching content are organised by the Section of Psychological Medicine, Division of Community Based Sciences. The Sub-Dean is responsible for overseeing all placements and ensuring that you receive appropriate clinical experience during your attachment. If you have problems or concerns with the attachment you should attempt to discuss these with your Educational Supervisor in the first instance. Ongoing problems should be brought to the attention of the Undergraduate Tutor. If difficulties cannot be resolved, or for any other issues relating to the programme, please contact the Sub-Dean.
Course Co-ordinator & Psychiatry Sub-Dean:
Dr Angela Cogan
c/o Mrs Tracy Aitken
Operational Manager – Postgraduate Psychiatry Trainees (West of Scotland)
Room 26, 1st Floor, Admin Building
Gartnavel Royal Hospital
1055 Great Western Road
Glasgow
G12 0XH
Tel:0141 211 0235
Email: Tracy.Aitken2@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
"We remind you of the goals of year 4/5:"
General learning outcomes for students during Year 4 and 5:
- To act professionally with the highest standards of personal integrity and reliability.
- To use the appropriate knowledge base of clinical subjects and of their underpinning sciences.
- To communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and patients' relatives.
- To be able to obtain a history and perform an examination related to all body systems and record and present the findings in an organised fashion.
- To be able to interpret findings from history, examination and investigations to produce an appropriate differential diagnosis and learn how to institute relevant management.
- To be able to assess prognosis and to plan and undertake continuing care.
- To be able to assess urgency of clinical situations and know when to seek help of others.
- To be able to perform relevant clinical procedures.
- To be able to work as a member of a team recognising the role of other health professionals, including an awareness of the management of the health service.
- To develop an ability to analyse personal strengths and weaknesses, with a life long commitment to learning.
Learning Objectives Specific to Psychiatry
Learn to take a history, perform a mental state examination, construct a differential diagnosis, plan investigations and make a management plan for psychiatric patients.
Ensure an adequate understanding of basic sciences relevant to the practice of psychiatry including applied anatomy, physiology and psychopharmacology.
Ensure an adequate understanding of prevalence and clinical presentation of common psychiatric conditions and how these may differ according to age and developmental stage.
Acquire ability to present psychiatric cases to your fellow students and to your educational supervisor.
Acquire an understanding of the assessment and management of psychiatric patients in the emergency situation, in either psychiatric or general medical or other settings, including management of behavioural disturbance.
Acquire an understanding of the assessment and management of psychiatric patients in the acute situation including the common psychological and physical treatments, including indications for their use, their method of action and any unwanted effects.
Acquire an understanding of the assessment and management of psychiatric patients with a view to longer term rehabilitation including a knowledge of the range of services and professionals involved in the care of the mentally ill.
State the doctor’s duties and the patient’s rights under the appropriate mental health legislation and mental capacity legislation.
Acquire ability to perform a risk assessment and to understand what may constitute risk to self and risk to others.
Explain the biological, psychological and socio-cultural factors which may predispose to, precipitate and maintain psychiatric illness and describe multi-factorial aetiology.
To reflect on the impact of psychiatric disorder on the patient their family and dependants