Overview
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 diagnosis—allowing you to approach a problem from either direction.
• Organizes material according to the types of questions that typically arise during the pediatrics clerkship.
• Uses Learning Objectives and Key Points boxes to make complex data easier to remember.
• Provides Practice Cases to illustrate the types of clinical scenarios you may experience.
• Includes a Practice Test of multiple-choice questions at the end of the book to help you prepare for examinations.
• Updated content ensures you are learning the most current information in the field.
• Include explanations of wrong and right answers in examination and case questions to aid your additional learning and review.
• Questions now in USMLE style. More useful for board prep.
• New interior design for ease of use.
Synopsis
This pocket (5x8.5") guide for those in psychiatric clerkship offers practical core knowledge on evaluation of patients and conditions, with material on conditions organized by presentation and by specific diagnosis. There is also an orientation to the psychiatric clerkship itself. Material is in question and answer format, with key point boxes, practice cases, and a multiple-choice exam. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Reviewer:William Miles, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description:This small paperback is designed as a survival guide for medical students who are doing their core psychiatry clerkship rotation. The first edition was published in 2003.
Purpose:Although not specifically stated, the purpose is obviously to provide medical students with practical, core knowledge needed to adequately manage psychiatric patients and to ensure the students' successful navigation through the core clerkship.
Audience:According to the author, the book is specifically written for medical students rotating on the core psychiatry clerkship. Psychiatric interns might also find it useful as a quick reference.
Features:The book is divided into four sections and the first section, on orientation to the psychiatry clerkship, will be particularly helpful to medical students, who might find the rigorous structure of an inpatient psychiatry unit unsettling. The remaining three sections review everything students might need to know in order to successfully navigate through and pass their psychiatry clerkship. Topics include how to evaluate psychiatric patients, signs and symptoms of psychiatric disease, and the various DSM-IV diagnoses. Chapters contain common questions (with answers) that might arise during the clerkship, learning objectives, and key points students should master, practice cases, and a NBME-style practice test. There are numerous black-and-white illustrations and tables. A thorough index ends the book, but there are no references or recommendations for further reading.
Assessment:This is, overall, a very thorough and well organized review for the core psychiatry clerkship. It is small enough that it can be kept in a lab coat pocket so students can refer to it while on the wards. This book stands up well against the numerous other review books for psychiatry. One minor complaint: on the back cover, one of the bullet points refers to "pediatric clerkship" instead of "psychiatry clerkship," but obviously this error does not affect the content of the book.
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Reviewer: William Miles, MD(Rush University Medical Center)Description: This small paperback is designed as a survival guide for medical students who are doing their core psychiatry clerkship rotation. The first edition was published in 2003.
Purpose: Although not specifically stated, the purpose is obviously to provide medical students with practical, core knowledge needed to adequately manage psychiatric patients and to ensure the students' successful navigation through the core clerkship.
Audience: According to the author, the book is specifically written for medical students rotating on the core psychiatry clerkship. Psychiatric interns might also find it useful as a quick reference.
Features: The book is divided into four sections and the first section, on orientation to the psychiatry clerkship, will be particularly helpful to medical students, who might find the rigorous structure of an inpatient psychiatry unit unsettling. The remaining three sections review everything students might need to know in order to successfully navigate through and pass their psychiatry clerkship. Topics include how to evaluate psychiatric patients, signs and symptoms of psychiatric disease, and the various DSM-IV diagnoses. Chapters contain common questions (with answers) that might arise during the clerkship, learning objectives, and key points students should master, practice cases, and a NBME-style practice test. There are numerous black-and-white illustrations and tables. A thorough index ends the book, but there are no references or recommendations for further reading.
Assessment: This is, overall, a very thorough and well organized review for the core psychiatry clerkship. It is small enough that it can be kept in a lab coat pocket so students can refer to it while on the wards. This book stands up well against the numerous other review books for psychiatry. One minor complaint: on the back cover, one of the bullet points refers to "pediatric clerkship" instead of "psychiatry clerkship," but obviously this error does not affect the content of the book.
2 Stars from Doody