Attendance and successful examination in:

i. Psychiatry I : ii. Psychiatry II

Students who owe the courses Psychiatry I and Psychiatry II may carry out their clinical practice in the Bachelor of Psychiatry (6th year), but cannot be examined in the Bachelor of Psychiatry, unless they have first passed the examinations in the courses Psychiatry I and Psychiatry II

Daily physical attendance

Participate in the Educational Programme

Reflective Learning

Power point

e-class

Clinical Scenario discussion and/or Objective Structured Clinical Examinations–OSCE

The examination draws its content from the syllabus of the courses Psychiatry I, Psychiatry II and Psychiatry (clinical attachment), and examines 1/3 the clinical skills and attitudes developed by the student, 1/3 the clinical application of theoretical knowledge, and 1/3 the ability to develop a good differential diagnosis and / or treatment plan.

Marking criteria are accessible to students

The purpose of the final year clinical attachment at the Department of Psychiatry is the application of theoretical knowledge in the diagnosis and management of patients in the clinical field. The ultimate goal is for students to develop the basic and necessary KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ATTITUDES in Psychiatry that will allow them to operate autonomously and safely as junior doctors in any specialty. The clinical attachment in psychiatry is particularly demanding because students are called upon to develop the above skills in a short time and to use their creativity and initiative.

Upon successful completion of the course, students must have developed the following:

• Clinical skills (effective communication with patients / relatives / colleagues / third parties, be able to develop a good therapeutic relationship, empathise, take a proper psychiatric history, perform a clinical examination, formulate treatment plans, etc.),
• Understand the clinical diversity of mental disorders, and develop the ability to distinguish mental from physical illnesses, and mental illnesses from each other.
• Develop advanced clinical management skills (negotiate the overlap of physical and mental morbidity, use the bio-psycho-social model to formulate a diagnosis and to devise a treatment plan, use multiple models in the interpretation of symptomatology, develop an understanding of psychotherapeutic approaches, understand transference / counter-tranference, etc.).
• Be able to assess risk (suicidality and self-harming behaviours, risk of harm to others, vulnerability, neglect, self-neglect, be able to prevent/detect dangerous adverse effects, etc.).
• Have an understanding, and experience the practical application of the law (involuntary hospitalisation, therapeutic confinement, human rights, mental capacity, cooperation with police / prosecutor’s office / prisons, etc.)
• Develop a modern attitude towards psychiatry (destigmatization of mental illness, psychiatric parity of esteem, psychiatric reform, community psychiatry, preventive psychiatry, ethics, etc.)

•  Daily attendance at the Department of Psychiatry and participation in the activities of the Clinic.
• Interview psychiatric in-patients
• Take and properly record a psychiatric history from in-patients
• Participate in on-calls, Outpatient Clinics and Liaison Psychiatry.
• Participate in the daily Ward Round and weekly Grand Round
• Participate in the department’s educational programme

• TBC