COURSE CONTENT
A) Lectures (theoretical courses)
Clinical Exercise and Tutoring
Their goal is to facilitate understanding the theory and applying it into practice along with familiarizing with psychiatric history taking and performing psychiatric clinical examination.
Students are divided into groups.
During the clinical placement, students participate closely in the process of psychiatric clinical examination and psychiatric history taking of a patient which are performed in front of them by their tutor, with the agreement of the patient. Afterwards, they discuss about psychiatric signs and symptoms, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment related to the examined patient.
During the tutorial courses, the students, in the presence of their tutor, attend in video model psychiatric interviews about frequent and/or severe psychiatric disorders. Subsequently, students participate in an organized discussion leaded by the tutor, regarding psychiatric signs and symptoms, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and the treatment concerning the model case they attended.