Psychiatry
PSYCHIATRY:
Adult Psychiatry
Child Psychiatry
and Research
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300.0 Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison
Instructor: Jeanne Horner, M.D.
Location: Boston Medical Center (B-410)
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: One
Period to be offered: Four-Eight week block
Description of Elective:
This four or eight week elective in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, located on the East Newton Campus, 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.
301.0 Boston Emergency Service Team: Emergency Psychiatry and Crisis Intervention
Instructors: Peggy Johnson, M.D.
Location: Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center, 85 East Newton Street Boston, MA 02118
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617-414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
This elective provides the medical student with the opportunity to observe and participate in the operational and clinical aspects of the Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST), which is the largest psychiatric emergency service program in the state. This is a core training site for the residency program. During this elective, the medical student will work directly with the clinical and medical directors for the BEST and learn about triage and systems of care within mental health. Students will evaluate and treat patients in the emergency department and in the Crisis Stabilization Unit. Students will learn about crisis interventions and about psychopharmacological management of acute psychiatric disorders.
303.0 Clinical Elective in Child Psychiatry
Instructor: Tim Rivinis, M.D.
Location: Boston Medical Center, Dowling 9 & Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
This elective in Child Psychiatry includes experiences in a range of clinical services including outpatient, emergency, and intensive residential treatment. Students learn about assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with psychiatric and dual diagnosis disorders. Treatment approaches include psychotherapy and psychopharmacological interventions that address developmental issues, both in cognitive and emotional development and in pharmacokinetics.
Electives at Affiliates
305.0 Addiction Psychiatry
Instructors: John Renner, M.D.
Location: Boston VA Outpatient Clinic
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
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: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
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: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
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.
308.0 Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
Instructors: Greg Binus, M.D. and Nancy Penland, M.D.
Location: E.N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Rd., Bedford, MA 01730
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
E.N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital is a core inpatient psychiatry training site for the residency program. This elective in inpatient psychiatry offers students a learning environment working with veterans with a range of psychiatric disorders including PTSD, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and dual diagnosis disorders. Students learn about the complexities of psychopharmacology in combination with psychotherapeutic inpatient interventions in treating chronic illness. Students also learn about the VA system of care and will be at the forefront of treating returning veterans from on-going conflicts.
309.0 Clinical and Neurobiologic Research in Psychiatry
Instructors: L. Herz, M.D. and C. DuRand, M.D.
Location: E.N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Rd., Bedford, MA 01730
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: Two
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
The student will have individual instruction in psychiatric research methodology and issues, including readings. He or she will participate in a Neuroscience Study Group and the Psychiatric Research Journal Club for Residents. The majority of time will be devoted to apprenticeship in an ongoing basic or clinical research effort, with the approval of the instructors. The research team will acquaint the student with the ethical, administrative, logistical and other aspects of the work as well as its technical focus.
310.0 Walk-In/Evaluations Clinic
Instructor: Lawrence Herz, M.D.
Location: E.N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Rd., Bedford, MA 01730
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: One
Period to be Offered: Four weeks
Description of Elective:
This elective will allow the student to experience daily clinical work in a psychiatry outpatient emergency service. Students will assist in psychiatric evaluation with a senior psychiatrist and triage nursing staff. In addition to education about acute psychiatric evaluation, the student will be taught to interview and conceptualize diagnostic and treatment considerations of many common psychiatric problems. The veteran population exposes the students to a range of problems of minimal to great complexity with full supervisory presence and time to discuss cases.
311.0 Inpatient Psychotherapy
Instructors: Paul H. Arkema, M.D. and George M. Dominiak, M.D.
Location: Westwood Lodge Hospital, 45 Clapboardtree St.,
Westwood, MA 02090
Contact: Rebecca Halley
Telephone: 617 414-7511
Email: rlhalley@bu.edu
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: Douglas Hughes, MD. Douglas.hughes@bmc.org
Location: Dowling 1, Room 1106
Administrative Support: Rebecca Halley, 617 414-7511, rlhalley@bu.edu
Number of Students: By arrangement
Period to be Offered: Nine Thursday or Friday afternoons, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, August through December (Start Date: End of August 2009) 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. Hughes 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.
