Medical Knowledge

MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE

Residents must demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical and cognitive (e.g. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of the major psychiatric disorders based on the scientific literature and standards of practice.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of psychotropic medications, including the antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood-stabilizers, hypnotics, and stimulants.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of substances of abuse.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of human growth and development, including normal biological, cognitive, and psychosexual development.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of emergency psychiatry including:

a) Suicide
b) Crisis interventions
c) Differential diagnosis in emergency situations
d) Treatment methods in emergency situations homicide, rape,
and other violent behavior

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of behavioral science and social psychiatry.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of psychosocial therapies including:

• All forms of psychotherapies (group, individual, family, behavioral theory and practice
• Treatments of psychosexual dysfunctions
• Hypnosis
• Doctor-patient relationship

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of somatic treatment methods including:

• Pharmacotherapy

• ECT

• Biofeedback.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of patient evaluation and treatment selection including:

• Laboratory methods used in psychiatry

• Mental status examination

• Diagnostic interviewing

• Treatment comparison and selection

• Psychological testing

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of consultation-liaison
   psychiatry.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of consultation-liaison
   psychiatry.

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge in forensic psychiatry

• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge in administrative psychiatry
   and in systems of health care delivery. The resident shall demonstrate
   knowledge in ethics