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Undergraduate Education
Overview
Welcome to the Undergraduate Education section
for the Department of Psychiatry.
Psychiatric education in the undergraduate
medical program consists of the following:
First Year: Although there are no formal
teaching sessions in the first year, students are invited to attend half-day
clinical observerships. Our clinical faculty is happy to have students join
members for a half-day. If you are interested in arranging an observership
please contact us at
ugepsychiatry@lhsc.on.ca.
Second Year: Psychiatry & the Behavioural
Sciences (Medicine 5207) is a five-week course offered in the second year which
provides an introduction to psychiatry (such as interviewing skills and the
mental status exam), followed by blocks of approximately one week in the areas
of child psychiatry, anxiety, psychotic and mood disorders.
Second year medical students also participate
in three weeks of PCCM (Patient Centred Clinical Methods) which allows an
opportunity to perform psychiatric interviews on standardized patients who
present with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses.
Third year: The Psychiatry Clinical Clerkship
is six weeks long. This rotation is broken down into three two-week blocks
including a two-week selective. Clinical clerks work in different clinical areas
with exposure to both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. Each Wednesday
morning students are released from their clinical duties to attend the clerkship
seminar series.
Fourth year: Elective students can experience
rotations as short as two weeks or as long as their schedule allows. This is an
important time to consolidate your interest in psychiatry as a career and get
those all-important references for your CaRMS application.
Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network (SWOMEN):
Undergraduate rotations are available in Chatham, Sarnia, Stratford, St. Thomas
and Windsor.
Links
Contact Us:
Program Director: Dr. Sandra Northcott
Clinical Clerkship Director: Dr. Carla Garcia
Administrative Assistant: Melanie Vandenborre
Email:
ugepsychiatry@uwo.ca
Phone: 519-685-8500, ext. 77781
Fax: 519-667-6564
Address: Room B8-130, London Health Sciences Centre – Victoria Hospital,
800 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario N6A 5W9
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