Psychiatry Clerkship Guide

This guide equips you with the practical core knowledge you need to manage the patients you're most likely to see during your psychiatry clerkship. Brief enough to read from cover to cover, yet thorough enough to address virtually all the challenges you might face, Psychiatry Clerkship Guide is just the tool you need to succeed. Broken into three sections, the book first introduces you to basic skills and concepts, including ethics, history, physical examination, and developmental assessment. It then goes on to describe specific psychiatric health conditions, organized by presentation (symptom, sign, abnormal lab value) and by diagnosisallowing you to approach a problem from either direction.

This concise volume covers the core knowledge needed by medical students during the psychiatry clerkship. Basic concepts discussed in the first section include inpatient service, the emergency room, and forensic psychiatry. Subsequent sections focus in turn on patient evaluation, symptoms, and known conditions. A table of common psychiatric medications is found in the appendix. For the second edition, the self-assessment has been rewritten in the style of the USMLE Step 1 exam. Editor Manley teaches psychiatry at New York U. School of Medicine. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)