Drs. M. Bengtson, Saundra Stock, Tanya Murphy, Karen Goldberg, Daniel Fallon and Medical Staff
This elective is designed to provide the interested student with an opportunity to develop diagnostic and management skills essential to the evaluation and treatment of children with psychiatric problems including the behavioral disorders that are commonly encountered in family medicine and pediatric practices.
Objectives
Learn how to evaluate and diagnose psychiatric problems including common behavioral disorders in children
Learn basic management skills of psychiatric problems including common behavioral problems
Become familiar with community agencies avail¬able to help children with psychiatric and behavioral problems
Become more familiar with the general practice of child psychiatry
Enhance interviewing skills of children and their families
Evaluation
The supervising faculty will evaluate the student’s clinical performance according to the elective objectives. In addition, the student will be required to prepare a written summary of the elective experience including a description of clinical and academic activities, a self-evaluation of what the student learned in the elective, and a critique of his/her elective experience.