Objectives:

1) Students will acquire basic knowledge in psychopathology and psychopharmacology as it pertains to patients seen in the emergency room setting.

1)Students will participate in clinical interviewing, diagnosis, and short-term treatment of psychiatric patients presenting in the emergency department.

This elective provides a supervised clinical experience in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric patients in the emergency department at Palmetto Health Richland.  The student will be actively involved in the acute and short-term care of patients with a range of psychiatric illnesses from psychotic disorders to substance use disorders.  The primary emphasis will be upon teaching via supervised psychiatric interviews and discussion of treatment options.  Individualized didactic teaching and independent study will be used to supplement the experience.