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Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: During this course students will see consultation cases from various departments, review chart work, and discuss cases during rounds with the consult physicians. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn directly about the medicine/psychiatry interface.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
This course requires application using VSLO. Off-Campus add form required.
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to work in rotations at other institutions or with individual psychiatrists.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: During this course students will observe and participate in initial
assessments and evaluations of patients with eating disorders and individual and group
psychotherapy, as well as psychopharmacological management and medical assessment
and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with eating disorders.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: Students will participate as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment
team in the evaluation and management of children and adolescents with varying severities
of psychiatric illness. They will be involved in individual, family, and group treatment
modalities, didactic presentations on topics in child and adolescent psychiatry. This
rotation involves experiences in consultation/liaison, residential inpatient, and
outpatient clinic with others as available or as per interests of the student.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: During this course students will participate in the treatment
of individuals infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS through assessment, individual
and family therapy, and psychological consultation in several HIV/AIDS treatment environments.
Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: During this course students will review current literature, summarizing
it as appropriate for departmental journal club, case conference or any other appropriate
venue, develop and work on a portion of or a full independent research project under
the supervision of a faculty mentor.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Students will rotate at Wellstar MCG Health, Stoney Outpatient Clinic, and Hope House residential treatment center.
Course Description: The addiction medicine elective provides experience in multiple settings including hospital-based consults, outpatient medication assisted treatment and residential treatment. There is a wide variety of patients including underserved, e.g., substance abusing pregnant women in treatment with their children. You will be working with Addiction Medicine physicians and fellows as well as psychiatry residents.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: During this course students will observe and participate in patient
evaluation, verbal and written patient case presentation including documentation in
medical records, and psychotherapy techniques frequently used in emergencies: supportive,
de-briefing, etc. The course is designed to introduce the medical student to the fundamentals
of emergency psychiatry.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: Students are expected to attend all ECT sessions during the rotation.
Students will also participate in clinic, and will assist with ECT and TMS consultations,
procedures, aftercare management, verification and authorization as necessary.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This course is designed for students interested in Psychiatry
to prepare them for internship. During the rotation, students will collaborate as
a member of an interprofessional team and demonstrate ability to act as primary clinician
for patients under attending supervision. They will be expected to demonstrate proficiency
in conducting initial assessments and evaluations and to distinguish appropriate psychopharmacological,
somatic treatments, and psychotherapy for psychiatric disorders.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Months Offered: NOT OFFERED AT THIS TIME.
Course Description: Students will observe and participate in initial assessments and evaluations of outpatient adults with various mood disorders, perform psychopharmacological management and medical assessment and treatment, direct patient care, participate in team meetings and group therapy, and attend associated didactic learning activities.
Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective course is designed to provide third- and fourth-year
medical students with a self-directed learning experience centered on media-related
issues from a mental health perspective. Under regular faculty supervision and discussion,
students critically examine assigned readings and media (e.g., social media, video
games, music, cinema, literature) and evaluate how these portray mental health. Students
also review academic literature discussing the influence of various media on mental
health and well-being. In addition to theoretical exploration, this course integrates
a clinical component to enhance practical skills. Students have opportunities to apply
their learning in clinical settings by collaborating with mental health professionals,
assessing the impact of media on patients, or creating media-focused interventions
to address mental health challenges. Students may conduct media assessments as part
of patient care or participate in interdisciplinary case discussions exploring the
media’s role in mental health treatment. Students develop a personalized, media-related
project as part of their final project. Options may include creating social media
content focused on mental health education or advocacy, collaborating with MCG’s media
team on public health initiatives, writing a letter to the editor or a learner’s perspective
column for a journal, or conducting a literature review on media-related mental health
issues.
Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks
Course Description: This elective is designed to allow M4 students an opportunity
to practice their leadership skills as they serve as peer role model to M3 students
on the Psychiatry rotation. Student must receive the site clerkship director’s approval.