• Instructor(s):  Sylvia Garma, Ph.D.  
• Course duration:  4 weeks
• Quarters:  I, II, III, IV
• Units:  6
• Location(s):  Shriners Hospital, CAPS Clinic
• Distribution of student's time:  Variable
• Prerequisites:  Psychiatry core clerkship and/or consent of clerkship director
• Course description:  Offers didactic and clinical inpatient, outpatient and consultation-liaison experiences with children, adolescents and families. Students may elect to have a combination inpatient/outpatient, psychosomatic medicine/outpatient, or full psychosomatic medicine experience. Under supervision, student does clinical observation, diagnostic assessment and treatment. Literature review and case conferences presented regularly.
• Enhancement modules:
  • Combined medicine/psychiatry 
  • Group psychotherapy   
  • Cultural psychiatry 
  • Emergency psychiatry  
• Clerkship objectives:
  • Improve knowledge of childhood disorders
  • Improve ability to evaluate children
  • Gain familiarity with various treatment modalities used in treating children with mental illness
• Commonly seen conditions:
  • Mood disorders
  • Developmental disorders
  • Psychotic disorders
  • ADHD

Vanessa Castillo
Course Coordinator for Medical Student Education
Phone (916) 734-2972
Fax (916) 734-3384
E-mail:  vanessa.castillo@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu