Outpatient and Social Psychiatry (RPS_029)
About Study Course
Objective
• To ensure the acquisition of the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in outpatient work for the psychiatrist.
• To provide the psychiatrist with theoretical knowledge on the significance of social factors in the aetiology and therapy of psychiatric disorders and practical skill sin resolving the social issues of the patients.
Learning outcomes
1.Knowledge of outpatient diagnostics, therapy, disease management, drawing up of therapy plans, implementation thereof, considering the therapy commenced at the inpatient institutions, complex approach to patient care, social factors and their role in the disease process of the patient, use of the aforementioned knowledge on social situation in the process of therapy and care.
1.Skills – to promptly identify the social problems of the patient in outpatient care, to diagnose the connection thereof with psychopathology, to organise care, to evaluate the social situation of patients, to recommend the possibilities of assistance within the healthcare system and beyond that; to determine the diagnosis in outpatient care, to prescribe therapy, to cooperate with other outpatient specialists and inpatient psychiatric service.
1.Competencies – to assume responsibility for the outpatient phase of patient’s therapy, to be capable of being accountable for the decisions made, to give tasks to the members of therapy and care team, to evaluate the information received from other persons involved in the therapy of the patient, including social aspects, to be liable for the ethical and legal consequences of one’s action, to be aware of the principal regulatory enactments governing outpatient care and social care, to use and to adequately interpret scientific research findings and information available in the literature in the interests of the patient.
