Syllabus
Practical training on psychiatric wards (17 units)
+ practical training and seminars focused on therapy of mental disorders
Organic disorders I: delirium
Organic disorders II: dementias
Personality disorders
Psychiatric interview
Therapy of psychotic disorders
Therapy of mood disorders
Therapy of anxiety disorders
Therapy od addictions
Emergency situations in psychiatry
Behavioural disturbances: eating disorders, sex and sleep disorders
Psychotherapy
Organization of psychiatrc care and forensic psychiatry
Lectures (3 units)
Freud and Medicine
Schizophrenia
Child Psychiatry
Annotation
Psychiatry course in the fifth year requires good psychiatric propedeutics skills and knowledge of pathophysiology of mental disorders. Students are expected to work with patients on thein own.
Students rotate in all three departments of National Institute of Mental Health: locked acute unit, open ward for treatment of affective disorders, open ward for treatment of anxiety disorders, including day treatment program for psychotic patients and for anxiety disorders. Work with clinical records is expected, including written reports on grand rounds; students perform clinical examination including its written form; participation at the psychotherapeutic and other psychosocial interventions is required.
Clinical seminars on therapy of psychiatric diseases are provided.