STANDARD COURSE SYLLABUS
for academic year 2013/2014
Name of subject:
Psychiatry
Director of unit
conduction the course:
Faculty:
Course of study:
Level of studies
Form of studies
Year: 5
Type of subject
Language of
instruction: english
Description of subject matter – Instructional program
Module code
E
according to
standards
from A to G
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Kiejna
Medical
medical
Unitary MMed
full-time X extramural X
Semester: X
obligatory X elective 
Name of unit conducting course
Winter semester (hrs.)
L
C
S
psychiatry
Total:
Summer semester (hrs.)
L
C
S
6
42
6
42
Educational goals (goals for lessons set by instructor, related to the results of education, max. 6 items)
A1. The general aim of the course is to learn about diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
A2. To learn how to conduct a clinical interview demonstrating an empathetic doctor-patient relationship
A3. To learn how to conduct a clinical interview leading to the psychiatric assessment allowing to
diagnose a patient and to plan the proper treatment scheme
A4. To learn how to lead an interview using open and closed questions, techniques for asking "difficult"
questions, as well as applying facilitation, empathy, clarification, confrontation, reassurance, silence,
summary statements and soliciting patient's concerns about the illness and its treatment.
A5. To learn how to diagnose and treat alcohol and substance abuse and dependence.
Matrix of educational results for subjects in reference to methods for verifying intended
educational results and manner of conducting lessons.
Number of educational Description of educational
Methods for verifying
Manner of lessons:
result
result (in conformance with
achievement of
** provide symbol
detailed educational results defined intended educational
in standards)
results *
Knowledge about the
etiopathogenesis of the main
test
L, C
E.W15.
psychiatric disorders
E.W16.
Knowledge about main
psychopathological
symptoms of psychiatric
disorder and their
classification
test
C
Knowledge about symptoms
as well as diagnostic methods
and therapeutic methods of
test
C
E.W17.
the most frequent psychiatric
disorders
Knowlege about diagnosis
and treatmet of the acute
test
C
E.W18.
psychiatric cases
*e.g.. test, presentation, oral response, essay, report, colloquium, oral examination, written examination;
** L- lecture; S- seminar; C- class; EL- e-learning;
Student work input (balance of ECTS points)
Lessons on-site (hrs.): 48
Own work (hrs.): 20,4
Summary of student workload: 68,4
ECTS points for subject 2
Remarks
Content of lessons: (please provide the subject of individual lessons, keeping in mind the need to contribute to the intended
educational results)
1. The concept of psychiatric disorders. Criteria of normality and psychiatric abnormality. Basic skills in
psychiatric interview. Communication and relationship between doctor and patient. Mental status
examination.
2. Basic psychopathology. Conducting an interview with a patient with psychiatric disorder. Classification
systems used in psychiatry.
3. Psychiatric diagnosis. Psychological assessment together with personality defence mechanisms
analysis. Conducting an interview with a patient with regard to psychiatric classification systems.
4. Mental state examination and assessment. Child and adolescent psychiatry.
5. Psychiatry of old age.
Primary and secondary literature
Mandatory
1. Kaplan and Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (softbound), Publisher: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition (2008) ISBN-10: 0-7817 8746-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-8746-8
2. Kaplan and Sadock's Study Guide and Self-Examination Review in Psychiatry, Publisher: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins; Eighth Edition (2007), ISBN-10: 0781780438, ISBN-13: 978-0781780438
3. Case Files Psychiatry, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; Third Edition (2009), ISBN-10: 0071598650,
ISBN-13: 978-0071598651
Additional
1. Psychiatry PreTest Self-Assessment & Review, (PreTest Clinical Medicine) Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Medical; Twelfth Edition (2009), ISBN-10: 0071598308, ISBN-13: 978-0071598309
2. Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing; Fourth Edition
(2006) ISBN-10: 1585622729 ISBN-13: 978-1585622726
3. Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Fifth Edition (2006),
ISBN-10: 0198566670, ISBN-13: 978-0198566670
4. Psychiatry Test Preparation and Review Manual: Text with CD-ROM, Publisher: Mosby Elsevier;
Pap/Cdr edition (2007) ISBN-10: 0323044220, ISBN-13: 978-0323044226
5. Lange Q & A: Psychiatry (Paperback) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; Ninth Edition (2007), ISBN10: 0071475672, ISBN-13: 978-0071475679
Requirements concerning instructional aids (e.g. laboratory, multimedia projector, other …)
Conditions for successful completion of course:
Name and address of unit conducting course, contact information (tel./email):
Department od Psychiatry
Wroclaw Medical University
Wroclaw, Wyb. Pasteura 10
tel.: 71 78416 00
e-mail: monika.tokarek@umed.wroc.pl
Person responsible for the course for a given year
Dr n. med. Przemysław Pacan
e-mail: przemyslaw.pacan@umed.wroc.pl
Signature of head of unit conducting the course
Signature of dean
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