Course Director: Dr. Carla Garcia
Associate Course Director: Dr. Kien Dang
Course Duration: 6 weeks

The six-week Psychiatry course clinical experience may take place in a variety of settings including inpatient units, outpatient clinics, consultation liaison teams, and emergency settings. An integral component of the course is interviewing patients with anxiety, mood, psychosis, cognitive, and substance disorders with focus on symptomatology, diagnosis, and basic treatment principles. All clerks will have exposure to psychiatric emergencies mostly by taking night and weekend on-call not exceeding one in five, until 11 p.m. Clinical experience with children and families take place during two half-days in a child psychiatry setting under the direct supervision of a child psychiatrist. Seminars are held weekly at each hospital site and include case based learning as well as interviewing skills and dealing with challenging personality styles.