The Mind
Total Contact Hours:
46 hours
Course Director:
Brenda Roman, M.D., Professor, Psychiatry
Course Description:
Without leaving the "brain," this course is about psychopathology and modern therapies to help those with psychiatric disorders. Through presentations, live and/or video recordings of "real" patients who tell their stories, case discussions, and student interviews of psychiatric patients in the hospital, the student gains an appreciation of the pervasiveness of mental illness, its diagnostic complexity, and what are the evidence-based treatments.
Course Learning Goals, Assessment, Practice, and Teaching and Learning Activities, and their Integration with the Institutional Educational Objectives:
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What does our institution want our graduates to do? |
If your students mastered the content of your course, what would they be able to do? |
What will students need to do for them and others (peers, professors) to know whether they have achieved this specific learning goal? |
How will students get the information they need to learn? |
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1. Institutional Objectives |
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3. Assessment |
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Given a case vignette determine the diagnosis by applying knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for the following disorders: Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Personality Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, Cognitive Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Eating Disorders. Paraphilias and Gender Identity Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and Childhood Psychiatric Disorders. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with one of the following diagnoses, identify the prevailing biological theories for the diagnosis: major depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, PTSD, OCD, schizophrenia and the pervasive developmental disorders. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with a psychiatric diagnosis, identify the most common, evidence-based treatments for that condition. Includes both therapeutic agents and psychotherapies. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with a psychiatric disorder, identify the potential confounding psychosocial factors for such disorders. |
Final MCQ Exam |
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Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts Patients |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with one of the following conditions, identify its etiology, pathogenesis, pathological changes and clinical features: of Alzheimer’s disease, Pick’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple system atrophy, Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease, and Friedreich’s ataxia |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Notepack Textbook Readings Neurodegenerative Lab |
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Given a case of a patient with a possible sleep disorder, identify normal and abnormal stages of sleep and the common disorders. |
Final MCQ Exam |
Practice Exam |
Online Tutorial Notepack Textbook Readings |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with a learning or memory problem, identify the biological processes learning and memory and how disorders manifest. |
Final MCQ Exam |
Practice Exam |
Live Lectures Notepack Textbook Readings |
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Given a case vignette of a patient who is at risk for suicide or homicide, identify the risk factors and explain how suicide and homicide impacts society. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts |
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Given a case vignette in which a patient is given one or more psychotropic agents, identify their mechanisms of action, common side effects, contra-indications, and drug-drug interactions. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts Psychopharmacology Conferences |
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Given a case vignette of a patient who is mostly likely to be using a substance of abuse, identify what the most likely substance is based on clinical presentation and history, identify how that substance affects the nervous system, and identify how both intoxication and withdrawal occur and manifest. Agents include: CNS depressants, stimulants, opioids, sympathomimetics, cannabinoids, steroids, psychedelics, nicotine, and commonly prescribed drugs that can lead to abuse. |
Final MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Practice Exam TBL GAPP |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack Textbook Readings Summary Charts |
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After observing a video clip of a patient, write a thorough and accurate mental status examination. |
Mental Status Written Assignment |
Practice Mental Status Assignment |
Live Lectures Online Tutorials Notepack |
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Demonstrate professionalism through the ability to be punctual and attend required events, complete written assignments in a timely fashion, be truthful, be courteous to patients, patients' families, staff, and colleagues, and demonstrate scholarship in the form of contributing to a positive learning environment, collaborating with colleagues, and performing self-assessment and self-directed learning |
TBL peer feedback at end of Term 1 Term 1 Exam |
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