Psychiatry and Mental Health

Code:

MI504

Acronym:

PSM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2010/2011 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychiatry and Mental Health
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	243	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina 2007	5	-	5	54	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

We consider a priority in the Medical curriculum the presence of a study area covering the assessment of abnormal behavior and emotional / afective pathology as well as the skill for diagnosing and treating mental disorders. Other objective would be the learning the somatic expression of psychiatric ilness and psychological reaction of seroius somatic disorders in a holistis approach to human suffering. Learnig will be made through seminars, open to discussion, supervised clinical sessions next to the patient and the elaboration of a short monography were the basic skills in Clinical Psychiatry will be tought. The existence of the practical sessions through the wards and the emergency service, together with the theoretical-practical discussion, allows the student to acquire a general attitude of considering the patient as totally integrated psychosomatic being and anticipating a specific overall view of an individual patient integrating the psychosocial assessment in the sense of true Modern Medicine.

Program

In the practical sessions, presentations and clinical discussions of in-ward and out-patient as well as patients from the day hospital and emergency room are made with active participation, “residence type”. The thematic contents of the lecturers and seminars are:
Causality in Psychiatry. Psychiatric semiology. Doctor-patient relationship in Psychiatry. Complementary exams of a psychological nature: psychometrical tests and assessment scales; of somatic nature: biochemistry, endocrinology, neurophysiology and neuroimaging. Anxiety disturbances (phobic-anxiety, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, reaction to serious stress, adjustment and dissociate behaviour). Humour disturbances (affective). Schizophrenia, Esquizotype and delirious disturbances. Personality disturbances. The psychosomatic perspective in Medicine. The somatoform disturbances and their importance in general practice. Mental disturbances and current behaviour of psychoactive substances (alcohol - illicit substances). The non-chemical dependencies: disturbances of habits and impulses. Drug abuse and rehabilitation. Alimentary behaviour disturbances - nervous anorexia and bulimia. Human sexual behavior. Sexual dysfunction, disturbances of sexual identity, of sexual preferences and of behavior associated with the development and sexual orientations. The parafilias. Organic mental disturbances (delirium, insanity, mental disturbances and other cognitive disturbances). The symptomatic and toxic disturbances in general. Clinic psychopharmacology; The new therapeutic orientations in Psychiatry. Psychosocial aspects of human aging. Psychogeriatrics. Community psychiatry. Psychiatric rehabilitation and day-hospital. Forensic Psychiatry. Mental health and compulsive internment. Law no. 36 of 24.07.98.

Mandatory literature

OMS; Classificação dos Transtornos Mentais e De comportamento da CID-10, Artes Médicas, 1993. ISBN: 978-85-7307-724-7
APA; DSM-IV-TR Manual de Diagnóstico e Estatística das Perturbações Mentais, American Psychiatric Association, 1996. ISBN: 972-796-020-0
Gelder M, Harrison P, Cowen P; Manual Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-19-856667-0
Vallejo J, Masson J; Introducción a la Psicopatologia y la Psiquiatria, Masson, 2006. ISBN: 10:84-458-1659-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

From 8.30 to 12.00 h = practical sessions - 3.5 hours. Between 12.00 and 13.00 h the students attend a theoretical seminar - 1.00 hours. From 14.00 to 16.00 the students participate in a theoretical-practical seminar – 2h00 hours.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	0,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

From 8.30 to 12.00 h = practical sessions - 3.5 hours. Between 12.00 and 13.00 h the students attend a theoretical seminar - 1.00 hours. From 14.00 to 16.00 the students participate in a theoretical-practical seminar – 2h00 hours.

Calculation formula of final grade

Objective assessment (multiple choice test). Values higher than 17.5 demand an oral examination, unless the students don't want grade improvement (in this case the student will have 18 = 17.5). Presence and pontuality of the student will be taken into account.
Requirement to attend classes, seminars and consultations is in accordance to the Falculty of Medicine, UPorto.

Examinations or Special Assignments

N.A.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

N.A.

Classification improvement

In accordance to the Faculty of Medicine, UPorto.

Observations

BIBLIOGRAPHY
The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. Porto Alegre, OMS, 1993; DSM-IV - Manual of Diagnosis and Statistics of the Mental Disturbances - American Psychiatric Association. 4th Edition, Lisbon, Climepsi, 1996; Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry - Gelder, M; Gath, D; Mayou, R; Cowen, P. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002; Synopsis of Psychiatry - Kaplan, HI, Sadock, BJ. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 2004; Introducción a la Psicopatología y la Psiquiatría, Valejjo Ruiloba, J Masson, S.A., Barcelona, 2006.