Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Liasions Psychiatry
Course Code
RPS_025
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Psychiatry
ECTS
8.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Māris Taube
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Psychiatrist
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Māris Taube
Contacts
-
About Study Course
Objective
To provide the students with knowledge and skills that psychiatrists require in consultation liaison psychiatry.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Knowledge of possible psychiatric and behavioural disorders in patients with somatic, neurological diseases and in gynaecology practice, peculiarities of treating such disorders. Knowledge of medicinal product interactions.
Skills
1.Ability to diagnose somato-psychiatric conditions and differentiate them from primary psychiatric disorders, to draw up the plan of care of such patients, to implement psychoeducation of patients and physicians.
Competences
1.Competences in communicating with the aforementioned patients, thus ensuring medication compliance, to manage the process of psychiatric disorder treatment, which is implemented by non-psychiatrist physicians.
Assessment
Individual work
|
Title
|
% from total grade
|
Grade
|
|---|---|---|
|
1.
Individual work |
-
|
-
|
|
• to read additional literature sources, to attend thematic conferences of LPA and LAP
- to learn identification of somato-psychiatric disorders and differentiation thereof from disorders in psychiatric patients.
- to learn tactically and strategically correct management of therapy process that is performed by non-psychiatrists.
|
||
Examination
|
Title
|
% from total grade
|
Grade
|
|---|---|---|
|
1.
Examination |
-
|
-
|
|
Testing theoretical knowledge in the form of tests and questions, analysis of clinical cases.
|
||
Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Peculiarities of counselling (liasion) work at medical institutions of somatoneurological profile. Exogenous reaction type and symptomatic psychiatric disorders.
|
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Psychiatric care of cardiac patients.
|
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Psychiatric problems in a gastroenterological clinic.
|
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Neurological patients and mental disorders
|
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Mental disorders that develop in patients with endocrinopathies
|
-
Seminar
|
Modality
|
Location
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
On site
|
Specialized room
|
Topics
|
Cancer patients and psychiatry. Elderly care.
|
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
8.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
6
Length (weeks):
6
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Philbrick, Kemuel L. Rundell, James R. Netzel, Pamela J. Clinical Manual of Psychosomatic Medicine: A Guide to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. 2nd Edition, American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington, VA, USA, 2012
2.
Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Editors B. J. Sadock, V. A. Sadock. 11th Edition. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2015
3.
The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of psychosomatic medicine. Edited by James L. Levenson. Washington, DC; London: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005
Additional Reading
1.
David Semple; Roger Smyth. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, 4th Edition: OUP Oxford. 2019. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
2.
Pharmacological treatment of mental disorders in primary health care. World Health Organization. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2009
Other Information Sources
1.
Caune M. Sertifikācija psihiatrijā. Uzdevumu krājums, 2013
2.
R. Andrēziņa, E. Tērauds. Praktiskā psihofarmakoterapija. Rīga, 2015. 40 lpp.
3.
Taylor, David Paton, Carol Kapur, Shitij. Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry. 11th Edition, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2012
4.
Bazire S. Psychotropic Drug Directory 2015. The professionals packet handbook and aide memories. 2015