• Instructor: Martin Leamon, M.D. 
• Course duration: 4-8 weeks
• Quarters: I, II, III, IV
• Units: 6-12
• Location:  Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center 
• Distribution of student's time:  Inpatient care - 100%
• Prerequisites: Psychiatry core clerkship and/or consent of clerkship director
• Course description:   Acting intern position on a progressive and dynamic inpatient unit. Emphasis on biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychodynamic aspects appropriate to diagnosis and management of  patients with recurrent depression, bipolar disorder, substance disorders, and schizophrenia chronically mentally ill patients. General adult county and forensic sites are available.
• Enhancement modules:
  • Combined medicine/psychiatry 
  • Cultural psychiatry 
  • Emergency psychiatry   
• Clerkship objectives:
  • Improve on psychiatric history taking and mental status exam
  • Improve on ability to treat acutely mentally ill patients
  • Learn to efficiently manage patients in a psychiatric inpatient unit
  • Effectively interact within a multidisciplinary treatment team
• Commonly seen conditions:
  • Severe major depressive disorder
  • Bipolar I disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Suicidality

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