Psychiatry
PSYCHIATRY:
Adult Psychiatry
Adolescent Psychiatry
and Research
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300.0 Psychosomatic Medicine
Instructor: Jeanne Horner, M.D.
Location: Boston Medical Center (B-410) or Solomon Carter Fuller (Room 501)
Contact: Kristen Paiva
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: One
Period to be offered: Four-Eight week block
Description of Elective:
This four or eight week elective in Psychosomatic Medicine, located on the East Newton Campus with Dr. Horner is a core training site for the residency program and the psychosomatic fellowship program. This course offers a consultation-liaison experience, with a focus on clinical work designed to enhance student’s ability to understand and appreciate the psychosocial aspects of medical illness. Emphasis will be placed on the development of interviewing techniques and differential diagnostic styles and increased responsibility for the development of brief treatment strategies. Interested students may choose to focus their clinical work in a particular area of the hospital or with a specific service. In addition, the student will be required to do research in an area of interest involving psychosomatic medicine with the development of a paper and presentation to members of the Psychosomatic Medicine team at the end of the rotation.
This course is not intended solely for those interested in psychiatry as a specialty, but especially for those interested in the areas of general medicine and primary care.
Electives at Affiliates
305.0 Addiction Psychiatry
Instructors: John Renner, M.D.
Location: Boston VA Outpatient Clinic
Contact: Kristen Paiva
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
This elective will provide students with clinical experience in addiction problems in the outpatient service, a core training site for residents, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine fellows. Students will participate in substance abuse treatment with methadone maintenance patients, buprenorphine patients, and alcoholic patients with major psychiatric problems. The major goals of the elective are to improve the student’s understanding of substance use problems, associated personality and emotional disorders, assessment measures, and the behavioral, pharmacological and systems approach to problem management used in this field.
306.0 Acute Psychiatry in Managed Care
Instructors: Carmel Heinsohn, M.D. and attending staff
Location: Bournewood Hospital
Contact: Kristen Paiva
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
Bournewood Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in the community, is a core adult inpatient training site for the residency program. This elective provides students with the opportunity to learn acute inpatient psychiatry, including patient evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment in a multidisciplinary setting. Students will learn about psychopharmacology and short-term psychotherapy management of patients with psychiatric disorders. Many patients are enrolled in managed care programs allowing students to also learn about systems of care, managed care approaches to psychiatric and substance use disorders.
307.0 Adolescent Psychiatry
Instructors: Carmel Heinsohn, M.D. and attending staff
Location: Bournewood Hospital
Contact: Kristen Paiva
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
Bournewood Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in the community, is a core inpatient adolescent training site for the residency program. This elective is an excellent opportunity to work with adolescents with psychiatric and dual diagnosis disorders in a managed care environment. Students will be members of a multidisciplinary team learning about psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, family therapy, and other treatment modalities. Students will learn about systems of care and the interface between social and educational services for adolescents.
311.0 Partial Hospitalization Psychiatry
Instructors: Paul H. Arkema, M.D.
Location: Westwood Lodge Hospital, 45 Clapboardtree St.,
Westwood, MA 02090
Contact: Kristen Paiva
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: One or two
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
The elective will offer the student the opportunity to learn psychotherapy, group therapies, and psychopharmacology consultation. The student will work closely with the staff of the adult partial hospitalization program, as well as receive individual psychotherapy supervision.
313.0 Preparing Future Physician Educators: Learning how to Teach Clinical Interviewing Skills to First Year Medical Students
Instructor: Dr. John Otis, johnotis@bu.edu
Location: Dowling 1, Room 1106
Administrative Support: Kristen Paiva, 617 414-7511, Kristen.Paiva@bmc.org
Number of Students: By arrangement
Period to be Offered: Nine Thursday or Friday afternoons, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, September -November
Please Note: Students will be granted only 2 weeks fourth year elective credit for this rotation
Description of Elective:
BUSM-IV medical students will learn how to observe, teach, and provide constructive feedback to BUSM-I medical students learning interviewing skills in the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course. The BUSM-IV student instructor will be assigned a group of 4-5 first year students. The BUSM-IV instructor will be responsible for teaching these students how to conduct a basic patient interview, how to compose a basic patient write-up, and how to verbally present a clinical case in a concise manner. Prior to each teaching/interviewing session, the BUSM-IV students will meet with Dr. Otis to discuss training issues. The purpose of this elective is to provide the 4th year student with clinical teaching skills and to enhance their own interviewing skills.
