This unit of study provides Stage 2 psychiatry trainees and other select clinicians with an opportunity to develop knowledge skills and attitudes in biopsychosociocultural approaches ConsultationLiaison CL Psychiatry and integrative medicine by exploring psychiatry at the interface with medicine and society The units approach will emphasise the interconnectedness of body brain and mind in individuals and surrounding systems Whats different about CL will be explored in this unit grounded in an understanding of the normal and dysregulated responses to stress trauma and medical illness including pain expanding Stage 1 concepts of formulation multimodal and tailormade management Principles of containment stigma and models of care in medical settings will be studied as will disorders of basic regulation sleep eating and sexual disorders We will examine psychiatry in particular settings the Perinatal period Intellectual and Developmental Disability Pain Oncology Spinal Burns Neuropsychiatry This unit will also deepen knowledge of ECT and introduce the newer biological treatments such as TMS This unit aims to enrich the trainee psychiatrists approaches to working collaboratively with consumers families treatment teams and care systems in multidisciplinary hospital and community settings Seminars will emphasise an enquiring approach based on evidence and engagement with the background medical and general communities
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Central Clinical School |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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BMRI5003 and BMRI5050 Knowledge and skills at the level of completion of Stage 1 Psychiatry training |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Loyola McLean, loyola.mclean@sydney.edu.au |
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