School of Medicine

Psychiatry

Section: 4th Year Elective Catalog

Ambulatory Care Elective: 4295-440

Department: Psychiatry

Instructor: Steven Epstein, MD

Contact: Kurt Koches

Phone Number: (202) 687-5494

Location: Georgetown University Hospital

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: 2 per time period

Description: The student will be assigned to work full-time with various Specialty Clinic Directors doing outpatient Psychiatry. Specialty Clinics include: Eating Disorders, Transplant, Medication Management, Substance Abuse, Psycho-Oncology, Child and Adolescent, and Geriatrics. Students should contact Kurt Koches at (202) 687-5494 two weeks before the start of the rotation to check in.

Psychosomatic Medicine: 4295-508

Department: Psychiatry

Instructor: Daniel Hicks, MD

Contact: Kurt Koches

Phone Number: (202) 687-5494

Location: Georgetown University Hospital

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: 2 per time period

Description: Georgetown University Hospital offers an elective in Psychosomatic Medicine Elective for 4th year medical students for 4 weeks. The student will be a member of the consult team, evaluating medical-surgical patients for problems with depression, delirium, somatization, substance abuse, psychosis, etc. The student will perform their own consults which will be staffed daily with the attending, and will actively follow and treat the patient as needed. Hours are from 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. The student will also participate in the Medical Illness Clinic weekly, seeing outpatients with medical problems referred for psychiatric evaluation and treatment, and following patients discharged from hospital consult service. In addition, the student may participate in other specialty outpatient clinics, such as Women's Mental Health, Transplant Psychiatry, etc. if time allows. The student will also do a presentation on some aspect of psychiatry in the medically ill to the team.

Research in Psychiatry: 4295-510

Department: Psychiatry

Instructor: Stephen Deutsch, MD and Richard Rosse, MD

Contact: Stacey McCray

Phone Number: (202) 745-8157

Location: Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: Two per time period

Description: The student will be assigned to work full-time with the staff of a highly developed component of the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center .  Both basic and clinical research opportunities are offered including work in a laboratory.  Research psychiatrists and professionals in related fields will carefully supervise this experience.  Recent areas of investigation have included:  cognitive function in schizophrenia, glutamatergic mechanisms in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, benzodiazepine receptor sensitivity, and dopamine receptor sensitivity.

Research Elective: 4295-580

Department: Psychiatry

Instructor:  Janice Krupnick, PhD

Contact: Janice Krupnick, PhD

Phone Number: (202) 687-1496

Location: Georgetown University Hospital

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: One per time period

Description: This rotation will give medical students the opportunity to participate in ongoing research projects in the Department of Psychiatry. The student will have the opportunity to work with faculty in areas that include: mental health services, women's mental health and community psychiatry. Depending on student interests, skills and project timelines, possible activities include interviewing research subjects, participating in research meetings, conducting literature reviews of project related topics, questionnaire development, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and research writing.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: 4295-501

Department: Psychiatry

Instructor: Caroline Sehon, MD

Contact: Kurt Koches

Phone Number: (202) 687-5494

Location: Georgetown University Hospital

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: One per time period

Description: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Elective is a one-month rotation in the Outpatient Child Psychiatry Clinic at the Kober-Cogan Building (GUH), at an adolescent residential treatment facility in Southern Maryland (RICA), and on the Consult-Liaison Service (GUH). This clinical elective provides medical students with the opportunity to observe the unique ways in which troubled children and adolescents are diagnostically evaluated and treated within their family context, and at a court-ordered unit of a residential treatment facility, and during a pediatric inpatient stay.  The student will learn about ways in which parents are interviewed and offered parent guidance to enhance the treatment of their child.  Clinical teaching would be provided before, during and at the conclusion of such clinical encounters. Readings of core topics in child and adolescent psychiatry would complement clinical teaching provided by three child psychiatrists and one child psychologist. Mentoring of the student would be offered to those students considering a career in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Forensic Psychiatry: 4295-515

Department: Psychiatry

Contact: Dr. Avram Mack or Dr. Allen Newman

Phone Number: Kurt Koches 202.687.5494

Location: St. Elizabeth's Hospital

Duration: Four Weeks

Max Students: One per time period

Description: This is an intensive introduction to the interface of criminal law and psychiatry. Students will be assigned to the John Howard Forensic Pavilion, the maximum security forensic building at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, for a 4 week rotation in forensic psychiatry and forensic court evaluations. Students will be supervised by a forensic psychiatrist, attend conferences, court trials and didactics on topics in law and psychiatry. Students will be involved in the evaluation of people entering pleas of incompetency to stand trial and not guilty by reason of insanity. Students will also be involved in the treatment and restoration process.  Student must register two weeks in advance.