PSYCHIATRY

Teachers:

Doc. Dr hab. Wiktor Drożdż

Dr Ewa Pilaczyńska-Jodkiewicz

Dr Mirosław Dąbkowski

Dr Małgorzata Dąbkowska

Dr Anna Szota

Dr Monika Wiłkość, psychologist

Lek. Wojciech Kosmowski

Lek. Borys Gniot

Lek. Michał Danek

Lek. Lech Giziński

Lek. Maurycy Araszkiewicz

Lek. Iga Zdaniuk

Lek. Aleksandra Łojko

Lek. Agata McCarthy

Mgr. Agnieszka Szałkowska, psychologist

  1. Department of Psychiatry
  2. Head of the unit: Prof. Aleksander Araszkiewicz, M.D.
  3. Faculty of Medicine, 4th year
  4. Course coordinator Anna Szota; e-mail:
  5. Form of classes : tutorials, seminars
  6. Form of crediting – credit with grade, 3 ECTS points
  7. Number of hours : 20 seminars, 40 tutorials
  8. Aim of the course: The course is designed for medical students as “an introduction to psychiatry”. It has to provide students with basic information on psychopathology, diagnosis and skills of proper interviewing mentally disordered patients.
  9. Topics of seminars:
  1. Introduction to psychopathology
  2. Psychiatric interview- presentation of patients in psychiatry clinic
  3. Schizophrenia- psychopathology, etiology. What does it mean “psychotic”?- part 1
  4. Affective disorders- etiology
  5. Anxiety disorders- etiology
  6. Laboratory tests in psychiatry
  7. Alcohol abuse – psychopathology
  8. Personality disorders
  9. Child Psychiatry- etiology

X. Self-study topics due to topics of seminars listed above.

XI. Booklist

  1. Basic:
  • Psychiatry for Medical Students by Robert J. Waldinger 3rd Edition 1997
  • Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students by Alan Stoudemire 3rd Edition, 1998
  • Synopsis of Psychiatry : Behavioral Sciences Clinical Psychiatry by Harold I Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock 10th Edition, 2010.
  1. Additional:
  • Psychiatry Crash Course by Cameron,Bloye,Davies
  • The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry
  • ICD-10
  1. To complete the course students are obliged to presence at seminars and tutorials and pass final test exam at the end of the course .

RULES AND REGULATIONS

1.Seminars and tutorials take place in Collegium Medicum UMK, in Bydgoszcz, Jagiellońska 13 street, Skłodowskiej Curie 9 street and Kurpińskiego 19 street, according to the schedule.

2.Presence at seminars and tutorials is obligatory.

3.White coats during tutorials and seminars are not obligatory.

4.Students are required to come to class on time.

5.Tutorials will count on the basis of an oral response and/or writing.

6.The absence up to 3 days will be excused on a basis of a sick-leave given by a physician or other institutions, but a student has to contact with all assistants who had seminaries and tutorials these days and present orally the knowledge from the abandon classes.

7.The absence above 4 days is treated as a non-classified course and a student has to repeat all course in next Academic Year.

8.Abandoned classes should be classified within 7 days after exemption period.

9.Unexcused absence from class will be treated as a non-classified tutorial.

10. At the end of the IV th year a test will be conducted.

11. At the beginning of the V th year the entry test from the topics of the IV th year will be conducted.

12. The final exam contains a practical part and a written test which are performed after the 5th year. The final exam will take place on the last day of the psychiatry course and begins with a practical part. The student who will not pass the practical part of the exam will not be able to enter for the written test until passes the practical part.

13. The practical part of the exam is an interview with a patient. After conducting the interview the student has to estimates the patient mental health in 3 areas: 1. symptoms of disease; 2. diagnosis; 3. treatment. For each area the student may get 0-2 points, maximum 6 points. Student needs at least 3 points to pass the practical part of the exam.

14. The written test includes 60 questions based on the knowledge from all seminars and tutorials. It is essential to have at least 65% of good answers to pass the written exam.

15. The final grade from psychiatry contains points from the written test plus points from practical part of the exam.

16. Improving non-passed written test will be held within a period of time specified by the assistant teacher.

17. Obtaining the unsatisfactory grade of the final test results in non-pass of a course.

  1. It is unacceptable to use mobile phones and the internet during seminars and tutorials.

19. Recording seminars, tutorials and patient’s interviews is not allowed.