Psychiatry ClerkshipDuring this four-week rotation, you will see patients with mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, personality disorders, delirium and dementia, and other psychiatric illnesses. We hope that you will become comfortable talking with a wide variety of patients, and that you will develop strong interviewing skills that will help you in any specialty. Students are assigned to either inpatient psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry at NMH, the Jesse Brown VA, or Children’s Memorial Hospital. On inpatient psychiatry, you will follow patients throughout their hospital admission, which can range from a few days to a few weeks. On consultation-liaison, you will evaluate patients on the medical, surgical, and Ob/Gyn floors, providing psychiatric consultation to the primary medical team. Depending on their placement, many students are also assigned to an outpatient clinic, where they have the opportunity to work with psychiatric patients in a less acute setting. On Tuesday afternoons, all students come together for lectures at NMH. All students take call at NMH, where they evaluate patients in the emergency department and provide emergency consultation on the medical floors. 
Sonya Rasminsky, MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director | 
