• Instructor:  Cameron Quanbeck, M.D. 
• Course duration:  4 weeks
• Quarters:  I, II, III, IV
• Units:  6
• Location:  Sacramento County Jail Psychiatric Unit and Clinic
• Distribution of student's time:
• Inpatient care:  70%
• Clinical rounds:  20%
• Conferences/lectures:  10%
• Prerequisites:  Psychiatry core clerkship and/or consent of clerkship director
• Course description:  Under supervision, student assesses acute and chronic mentally ill inmates in both inpatient and clinic settings
• Enhancement modules:
  • Combined medicine/psychiatry  
  • Child psychiatry 
  • Cultural psychiatry 
  • Emergency psychiatry  
• Clerkship objectives:
  • Improve ability to evaluate and treat mentally ill patients in a forensic setting
  • Improve on documentation skills
  • Understand the clinical, legal, and ethical issues at the interface between Psychiatry and the criminal justice system
• Commonly seen conditions:
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Bipolar disorders
  • Psychotic disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Malingering

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