ACADEMIC YEAR Spring 2024 to Winter 2025
- Demonstrate the ability to ask in a sensitive manner about the following:
- Suicide and suicidal ideation
- Homicidal ideation
- Abuse
- Drug and alcohol habits
- Perform two complete oral presentations that include all the components of a typical psychiatric admission note with an assessment and evidence based differential diagnosis and treatment plan
- Identify the major indications for and side effects of medications from each of the major classes used in psychiatry
- Identify an area of knowledge gap related to the field of psychiatry, appraise the scientific literature and give a presentation of the topic
- Demonstrate the ability to accurately identify, understand and reflect the emotions a patient is experiencing
- Demonstrate compassion, integrity and respect for others
- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary mental treatment team
- Recognize that ambiguity is a part of the provision of clinical care
- Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical principles related to decisional capacity evaluation and voluntary vs involuntary psychiatric treatment