Instructor(s): Kewchang Lee, Andrew Halls

Students, under supervision, are responsible for patient evaluation and participation in treatment planning for inpatients, outpatients, and consultation/liaison, They attend seminars related to clinical work. This course is taught in conjunction with the 4-week Neurology 110 clerkship, resulting in an 8-week long continuity clinic and a combined psychiatry and neurology conference.

Instructor(s): Ramotse Saunders

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Interventional psychiatry is an emerging subspecialty focused on procedural approaches to treating refractory neuropsychiatric disorders.These include electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation and ketamine infusion therapy.

Instructor(s): Larry Kaplan

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will join UCSF MC psychiatric consult team and respond to psychiatric consultation requests from medical or surgical inpatient teams and the emergency room.

Instructor(s): Kewchang Lee

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will have opportunities to recognize common diagnoses in psychiatric practice, observe common procedures, and compose treatment plans for these common conditions.

Instructor(s): Loren Roth

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will become familiarized with outpatient psychiatric care in a jail setting, with exposure to new patient evaluations and follow up visits; severely mentally ill patients as well as those with less serious pathology and substance abuse.

Instructor(s): Hohui Wang, Jeein Yoon

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Opportunity for student to be exposed to career of child & adolescent psychiatrists working in a variety of settings. The student will work with patients from a wide range of diverse socioeconomic status, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.

Instructor(s): Peter Ureste

Learners will acquire specialized knowledge and skills in geriatric psychiatry through interviewing patients, writing up and presenting patient cases, and developing treatment plans specific to the mental health care of older adults. Clinical experiences include a combination of assessing patients on the ZSFG inpatient psychiatric unit, ZSFG Geriatric Neurology Cognitive Clinic, consult service, conservatorship legal hearings, neuropsychological testing, and potentially other locations.

Instructor(s): Melody Hu, Joseph Pierre

This is a tier 1a subinternship on the Parnassus adult inpatient psychiatry unit. The unit serves both voluntary and involuntary patients with a broad range of diagnoses. The unit is run by a multidisciplinary staff including nursing, social work, attendings, and second year students. Students co-manage patients with residents and attendings, learning to function at an intern level. Students need not be applying in psychiatry though most who rotate are.

Instructor(s): David Elkin, Descartes Li

Students have the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team composed of occupational therapists, social workers, pharmacists and physicians. Learning objectives focus on learning culturally competent interviewing, formulation, differential diagnosis, and psychopharmacology in a fast-paced environment where most patients stay 3-5 days. The elective provides intensive exposure to a broad spectrum of conditions encountered in the practice of inpatient public psychiatry.

Instructor(s): John Harbison, Descartes Li

Psychiatric Emergency Services at ZSFG offers an exciting, advanced clerkship in emergency psychiatry. The clerkship emphasizes evaluation, diagnostic and risk assessment, medication management, legal issues, and disposition for acutely decompensated individuals. Students work closely with faculty to provide evaluation and treatment for PES patients that reflect a broad spectrum of psychiatric conditions and provide students with a broad experience in general adult emergency psychiatry.

Instructor(s): Maria Fernandez, Descartes Li

SFVAMC PICU is a 12-bed mixed voluntary-involuntary inpatient psychiatric unit. Learners will be immersed in an intensive inpatient psychiatric clinical experience, with emphasis on continuity of care of a special population (veterans) with a wide variety of diagnoses. Students, with close attending supervision, will assume primary clinical responsibilities for the evaluation/treatment of patients through initial evaluations, somatic treatments such as ECT, through hospitalization and discharge.

Instructor(s): Arnaldo Moreno, Descartes Li

Learners will acquire specialized knowledge and skills in geriatric psychiatry through interviewing patients independently, writing up and presenting patient cases, and developing treatment plans in clinical settings specific to the mental health care of elders. Clinical experiences include a combination of Geriatric Mood Assessment Clinic, Late-life Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinic, Geriatric-Focused Didactics, ECT, Consults, Home-based Mental Health, and optional Psychotherapy groups.

Instructor(s): Danielle Roselin, Descartes Li

This elective allows students to learn about a variety of treatment modalities in different clinics treating general outpatient psychiatric problems, including mood and anxiety disorders, as well as psychosis, substance use, geriatric psychiatry, and PTSD. The elective includes pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, mental health intake and follow-up, and case conferences. Students are supervised by a “home attending,” in addition to working with attendings and residents in the clinics.

Instructor(s): Larry Kaplan, Descartes Li

Catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, Munchausen’s syndrome, Conversion Disorder, Somatization, Delirium and Dementia…these are just some of the presentations we see as psychiatric consultants at Moffitt-Long. Students will learn how to assess and manage common and uncommon psychological problems at the interface of medicine and psychiatry. This rotation is excellent preparation for students, providing additional exposure to one of the most fascinating areas of psychiatry.

Instructor(s): David Elkin, Descartes Li

The Consultation/Liaison services at ZSFG provides an opportunity for medical students, especially those planning a career in or interfacing with primary care, to experience psychiatry in a general hospital setting. Students interview inpatients from various services (medicine, surgery, ob-gyn among others), formulate differential diagnoses, as well as psychodynamic and cultural formulations and utilize brief psychotherapy and psychopharmacology approaches.

Instructor(s): Kewchang Lee, Descartes Li

This elective allows students to learn about providing psychiatric consultation to their colleagues on the inpatient medical-surgical wards. Common diagnoses include delirium, dementia, and depressive and personality disorders. Medicolegal issues, such as decision-making capacity and mental health holds, also arise frequently. Students will also have the opportunity to see outpatients in clinics with a psychiatry subspecialty focus, such as geriatric psychiatry, PTSD, and addiction.

Instructor(s): Renee Binder, Descartes Li

Medical students will gain exposure to the field of forensic psychiatry through observation, active participation with forensic experts, and direct work with incarcerated patients. They will work at San Quentin State Prison two days/week and attend law school classes at Hastings College of Law when in session. They will learn about civil and criminal cases that involve psychiatric expertise and participate in a landmark case seminar that reviews cases at the interface of psychiatry and the law.

Instructor(s): Caitlin Costello, Descartes Li

This course has been designed to expose the student to a variety of outpatient and inpatient settings in which child psychiatrists function. Students will gain exposure to the psychiatric assessment and treatment of children and adolescents, and will learn how to function as part of an interdisciplinary team. Students will also complete an independent project.

Instructor(s): Descartes Li

Clinical clerkship in off-campus hospitals, approved by the chairperson of the department and the dean.

Instructor(s): Descartes Li

Clinical clerkship in off-campus hospitals, approved by the chairperson of the department and the dean.

Instructor(s): Daniel Kirsten

The consultation-liaison service provides psychiatric consultation to medically hospitalized inpatients at the request of the attending physician of record. The rotation provides a wide breadth of exposure to acute psychiatric issues including psychosis, mania, suicidal ideation, and delirium. Students are expected to independently evaluate patients, obtain a history and mental status examination and present to the attending staff. Learning opportunities include daily rounds and didactics.

Instructor(s): Staff

Student works on research project under the guidance of faculty mentors and supervisor.

Instructor(s): Descartes Li

This elective will focus on the ways that AI is changing medicine. Our speaker series will include doctors and researchers at UCSF and beyond who are pioneering the integration of AI into clinical medicine, and who are excited to share their expertise with students entering the healthcare industry.

Instructor(s): Descartes Li

Explores focal psychiatric issues in systematic format. Current electives include substance abuse, women's psychological health, the development of physician identity, cross-cultural issues. New topics are designed according to faculty/student interests.

Instructor(s): Staff

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.