.
Psychiatry
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:13.00
Study Course Accepted:21.08.2023 13:30:15
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PUNK_005 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Psychiatry | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Elmārs Rancāns | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Psychiatry and Narcology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 2 Tvaika Street, pnk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67080131 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 5 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 5 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | • Anatomy, physiology, pathological physiology and anatomy; • Developmental and medical psychology; • Ethics in medicine; • Epidemiology; • Public health; • Medical genetics; • Basic principles of clinical care; • Basics of Neurology; • Radiological investigation of central nervous system; • Basics psychopharmacology; • Basics of psychotherapy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To give knowledge about epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnostics and course (according to ICD-10) of mental and behavioural disorders; to give knowledge about emergency case management in psychiatry; basic principles of prophylaxis, pharmacological treatment, social rehabilitation and role of psycho therapeutic treatment of mental and behavioural disorders in primary care; to give knowledge about organization and practical work of metal health care; to give knowledge about ethical and legal principles in psychiatry; and distributions of competence between different physicians when it comes to planning and organizing health care of mentally ill patients. To teach skills and to develop competencies in psychiatry according to requirements for speciality of a physician. To develop empathetic attitude towards patients and their family members, to reflect on and to improve their own attitudes towards mental health problems. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Short review of the history of psychiatry. Classification of mental disorders. The structure of mental health care in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Schizophrenia and its treatment through centuries. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Mood (affective) disorders. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Behavioural and emotional disturbances occurring in childhood and adolescence. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Classification of mental disorders (according to ICD-10). Mental health care in Latvia. Legislation and legal aspects. Clinical interview and description of the clinical case in psychiatry. General psychopathology. Disorders of perception, thinking, affect, anxiety and cognition. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | General symptoms, classification and diagnostics according to ICD-10 of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, basic principles of treatment and rehabilitation. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | General features of organic mental disorders. Clinical symptoms and differential diagnosis of dementia, treatment possibilities and care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Clinical features and treatment of mood (affective) disorders. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | Neurotic, stress related and somatoform disorders. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Symptomatic mental disorders, clinical features, differential diagnosis, treatment principles and care. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 12 | Disorders of psychological development, behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Self-reading of obligatory and suggested literature; patient case description. We will be very grateful if the students fill in the course evaluation questionnaires at the end of the course, which will allow to further improve this course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final assessment of the course is cumulative, where 50% consists of assessments of independent work, 50% the result of an exam. Each semester, students will be required to perform 2 individual tasks (4 in total), which will be graded. The average mark of these works will be included in the final grade. The final examination is written. Examination ticket will consist of 3 randomly selected questions. Each question will be just a part of examination questions provided to You in e-studies. The length of this question will be tailored to be easily answerable in 25 minutes and written on not more than one A4 page from both sides. Particular examination ticket will be drawn right before the exam. Each examination question will be graded separately and the final grade will be an average of 3 grades. If two of any of questions will be marked with unsatisfactory grade, examination will be failed. The final grade of the course will consist of the average grade of independent work + the grade of the exam (both marks two decimal places) / 2. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Show and systematize knowledge about epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnostics and course (according to ICD-10) of mental and behavioural disorders; knowledge about emergency case management in psychiatry; basic principles of prophylaxis, pharmacological treatment, social rehabilitation and role of psychotherapeutic treatment of mental and behavioural disorders in primary care. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Skills to perform full psychiatric evaluation, recognize, evaluate and to describe core symptoms of mental and behavioural disorders when working in general clinical practice; to differentiate normal and pathological reactions in every-day life situations, to evaluate the possibility of self-harm; to perform an interview, showing empathy, and to comprehend importance of therapeutic relationships in psychiatry; to report the clinical case to other doctors and medical professionals; to evaluate and plan the clinical care patient would need; to evaluate the influence family environment has on the patient; to realize the importance of multidisciplinary team and to show skills to work in it. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Plan and suggest help in organization and practical work of mental health care services; ethical and legal principles in psychiatry; distributions of competence between different physicians, when it comes to planning and organizing health care of patients with mental and behavioural disorders; to explain and apply principles of confidentiality and informed consent in psychiatry; to show understanding and empathy towards the possible stigmatization of patient and his or her relatives; to explain the concept of the disease to the patient and his or her relatives; to understand personal attitude towards mentally ill patients and the influence this attitude might have on the patients and course of treatment; to integrate newest scientific developments of psychiatry in everyday work and development of research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | David Semple; Roger Smyth. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. 4th ed. OUP Oxford. 2019. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) | ||||||||
| 2 | Harrison, Paul Geddes, John Sharpe. Michael Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes: Psychiatry. 10th ed. Willey – Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2014 – pieejama datubāzē Ebook Central (ProQuest) | ||||||||
| 3 | The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, version 2019. https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en | ||||||||
| 4 | Taylor, David M., et al. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B. Kupča, G. Ancāne, I. Ķiece, Ņ. Bezborodovs. Depresijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3. Izdevums. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2016.g., 52 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv) Latvian only | ||||||||
| 2 | E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B. Kupča, I. Ķiece, I. Zārde, Ņ. Bezborodovs. Šizofrēnijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3. Izdevums. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2014.g., 43 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv) Latvian only | ||||||||
| 3 | E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B. Kupča. Bipolāri afektīvo traucējumu diagnostikas un ārstešanas vadlīnijas. 2. Izdevums. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2016.g., 48 lpp. Latvian only | ||||||||
| 4 | Rancāns E., Tērauds E., Zaļkalns J., Riževa I., Tirāns E., Taube M. Depresijas un neirotisko traucējumu diagnostikas un ārstēšanas rekomendācijas ģimenes ārstiem. RSU Psihiatrijas un narkoloģijas katedra. Rīga, 2012.g. 32 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv) Latvian only | ||||||||
| 5 | R. Andēziņa, E. Tērauds, L. Ķevere, Ņ. Bezborodovs. Uzmanības deficīta un hiperaktivitātes sindroma (UDHS) diagnostikas un korekcijas vadlīnijas bērniem un pusaudžiem. RSU Psihiatrijas un narkoloģijas katedra. Rīga 2014.g., 31 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv) Latvian only | ||||||||
| 6 | Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Editors B.J.Sadock, V.A.Sadock. 11th ed. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2017. | ||||||||
| 7 | R. Andrēziņa, E. Tērauds. Praktiskā psihofarmakoterapija. Rīga, 2015.g. 40 lpp. | ||||||||
| 8 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 9 | Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Editors B.J.Sadock, V.A.Sadock. 11th ed. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2017. | ||||||||
