• Instructor(s): Alan Koike, M.D., Mei-Fang Lan, Ph.D. 
• Course duration: 4 weeks
• Quarters: I, II, III, IV
• Units: 6
• Location:  Sacramento County Adult Psychiatry Support Services 
• Distribution of student's time:
• Outpatient care:  90%
• Conferences/lectures:  10%
• Prerequisites: Psychiatry core clerkship and/or consent of clerkship director
• Course description:  Group psychotherapy has become a well accepted modality for providing care to psychiatric patients.  For many patients, this context has significant advantages over individual therapy.  Senior medical students will rotate through a community mental health clinic with an extensive group psychotherapy program.  Students will have opportunity to see patients individually, but the main emphasis will be to participate in cutting edge group therapies in the following contexts:
  • Medication support
  • Culture-specific groups for Hmong and Spanish-speaking communities
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Cognitive behavior therapy targeting panic disorder
  • Psychoeducational groups for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and bipolar spectrum disorders
• Enhancement modules:  Any 
• Clerkship objectives:
  • Become familiar with basic principals of group therapy
  • Become familiar with cognitive behavioral, psychoeducational, dialectical behavioral, and culture-specific approaches to psychiatric treatment
  • Learn basic skills of co-facilitating in groups 
• Commonly Seen Conditions:
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Bipolar II disorder
  • Personality disorders
  • Panic disorder

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