The course includes comprehensive lectures providing students with in-depth training in evidence-based behavioral medicine and psychiatry. The course is designed to introduce students to the biopsychosocial model of diverse patient populations with acute and chronic conditions throughout the lifespan, including end-of-life care (e.g., hospice and palliative care), integrating human physical and psychological development, human sexuality, and responses to stress, injury, illness, and death. The course also incorporates training in substance use, abuse, and addiction issues as well as the treatment for such disorders. Evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and management of psychiatric conditions and illnesses are covered throughout the course, including progressively challenging case-based learning sessions that begin with isolated conditions and progress to comorbid conditions and multimorbidity. These sessions are geared towards problem-solving and medical decision-making skills within a collaborative, interprofessional, patient-centered, team-based model.
MPAS 524: Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
Program