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» Faculty of Medicine » Home » 2016 » October » 21 » Year 1 Psychiatry Clinical Skills Teaching Invitation

Year 1 Psychiatry Clinical Skills Teaching Invitation

Dear Colleagues,

I am following up and writing to invite you to teach Psychiatric Clinical Skills in MEDD 412 to first year medical students in Undergraduate Education with the Faculty of Medicine. Please click on the link to complete the sign-up form if you are interested in teaching:

https://survey.ubc.ca/surveys/meddcsy1/year-1-psychiatry-clinical-skills/

The Psychiatric Clinical Skills component of MEDD 412 consists of three sessions all running from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM with a group of 6 students. Sessions will be available from January through to April 2017. Tutors will receive $90 an hour for teaching plus an additional $90 per session for finding patients for the 2nd and 3rd sessions as well as an additional $90 per session for case analysis.

The first session will be held and the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Center, 2nd floor clinical skills rooms. The students will be given the opportunity to practice and observe psychiatric interviewing using standardized patients. Two cases have been developed to facilitate the interview and conducting a mental status examination. In the remaining sessions students will practice and observe the psychiatric interview and mental status examination on psychiatric wards with in or out patients.

The purpose of these sessions is for the student to:

  • Continue the process of enhancing interviewing skills begun in the Introduction to Communication Skills sessions during the MEDD 411 course (first term) Sept to Dec. 2016.
  • Participate in an initial psychiatric interview
  • Recognise common signs and symptoms of mental illness
  • Recognise psychiatric symptoms and signs consistent with
  1. Mood disorder (e.g. depression)
  2. Thought  form, content disorder (e.g. psychotic syndrome)
  • Conduct a psychiatric mental status examination

Tutors will be provided learning materials in the form of a tutor guide that outlines all the session objectives and required information.

Clinical Skills at UBC is highly valued by the students and is seen by clinicians as a critical part of this early stage of medical education.  One cannot overestimate the importance of these initial patient contacts in the development of our physicians.

Kind Regards,

Violet Weerasinghe

Senior Programme Assistant, Year 1 Clinical Skills

MD Undergraduate Education, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

T: (604) 875-4111 x 67407

F: (604) 875-4046

2111-2775 Laurel Street GLDHCC

Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9

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