This CU is of the modular type, is taught 4 times a year to one group of students at a time and comprehends integrated themed lines of study that run throughout the third year and takes precedence Thinking and Doing I and II CU.
Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students)
- Identify mental problems in patients, including contacts in a somatic setting;
- Know contents and systematic approach of psychiatric examination and be able to perform this examination (under supervision);
- Know basic concepts in psychiatric examination and use them correctly when consulting with other care providers and in reports on findings;
- Ascertain a psychiatric disorder using the basic concepts;
- Know the main models in mental health care to explain/understand the development/maintenance of mental problems: biological-psychiatric, stress, cognitive-theoretical, system-theoretical;
- Treatment options in mental health care (based on theoretical models);
- Know psychopharmaceuticals, draw up pharmacotherapeutic treatment or evaluate existing ones;
- Know treatment facilities for mental disorders;
- Write structured reports/report findings in psychiatric patients. This can be a progress report about patient’s state or a case presentation.
Syllabus
The areas covered will be: Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Psychology, Mental Health.
- Psychiatric disorders;
- Psychiatric diseases;
- Epidemiology and international variations;
- Psychosomatic conditions;
- Neuropsychological function and investigation;
- Neurobiological structures, function and foundations;
- Disturbed behaviour;
- Psychological and neuropsychological investigations;
- Psychiatric diagnoses;
- Identification of mental functions;
- Perception and memory;
- Theory of learning;
- Ageing and psychiatric disorders in elderly people;
- Psychiatric disorders along the life cycle;
- Medical ethics;
- Mental health related legislation;
- Mental health policies and mental health care organization;
- Public mental health and global mental health.
