Undergraduate Students Program:

I.     Psych Course 461 to 5th and 6th year medical students. This course aims at providing the student with the psychiatric knowledge and skills expected from a primary health care physician. The specific objectives include the following:

1.     Teach students to show respect and understanding to individuals presenting with emotional and behavioral problems, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic or religious background.

2.     Familiarize students with psychiatric terminology in a practical fashion and help them gain good theoretical knowledge of major psychiatric disorders.

3.     Learn how to formulate clinically-based differential diagnosis for common psychiatric presentations and manage common and dangerous psychiatric emergencies.

4.     The teaching philosophy falls in a spectrum, ranging from teacher-oriented to student-oriented format. Therefore, the student will be exposed to lectures, group discussions, tutorials and bedside teaching. All these activities are administered and/or facilitated by the consultants/academic staff, with the cooperation of highly qualified and experienced community psychiatrists.

TIMETABLE OF THE COURSE:

Lectures:

·         Introduction & Orientation to the course

·         Classification & Etiology of Psychiatric Disorder

·         Signs & Symptoms in Psychiatry (Psychopathology 1)

·         Signs & Symptoms in Psychiatry (Psychopathology 2)

·         Affective Disorders

·         Schizophrenia and other Psychosis

·         Neurosis I (Classification, OCD, Stress, & Grief )

·         Neurosis II (GAD, Panic, Phobias)

·         Organic Psychiatry

·         Psychopharmacology

·         Psychosomatic Medicine

·         Substance Abuse

·         Emergency Psychiatry

Interview Skills:

·         Session 1: Introduction

o    Setting a time management

o    Interview Structure (Application on OPD Sheet)

·         Session 2: Tutor Demonstration on a real patient

·         Session 3: Video Demonstration (To be applied for next group(

·         Session 4: Role play demonstration

·         Session 5: Student – Patient Interview (Present and Past History(

·         Session 6: Student – Patient Interview (Family, Personal History and Premorbid Personality(

·         Session 7: Student – Patient Interview (Mental State Examination(

·         Session 8: Student – Patient Interview (Diagnostic Process(

Group discussion

·         Assessment and Management of Agitated Aggressive Patients

·         Assessment and Management of Suicidal Patients

·         Assessment and Management of Cognitively Impaired e.g. dementia, delirium, MR, posthead-injury

·         Assessment and Management of Patients Feeling Depressed

·         Assessment and Management of Psychotic Patients

·         Assessment and Management of Patients Feeling Anxious

·         Assessment and Management of Somatizing Patients

·         Personality Disorders

·         Psychological Treatments

Tutorials

·         Psychiatry in Primary Care (Epidemiology & Referrals)

·         Depression in Primary Care

·         GAD in Primary Care

·         Psychiatry and Neurology

·         Psychiatry and Cardiology

·         Psychiatry and Rheumatology

·         Psychiatry and Oncology and Hematology

·         Psychiatry and Nephrology

·         Psychiatry and Gastroenterology

·         Psychiatry and Dermatology

·         Psychiatry and Endocrinology

·         Psychiatry and Chest Disorders

·         Psychiatry and Metabolic Disorders

·         Psychiatry and Epilepsy and Stroke

·         Psychiatry in Intensive Care Units

·         Amnestic Disorders

·         Dissociative Disorders

·         Mixed Affective States

·         Psychotropic Drugs Emergency States

·         Assessment of Suicide Risk

·         Common Psychiatric Problems in Elderly

·         Common Psychiatric Problems in Surgical Patients

·         Psychiatry and Gynecology

·         Post-partum Non-psychotic Disorders

·         Schizoaffective Disorders

·         School Refusal

·         Somatization in Primary Care

·         Psychiatric Aspects of Mental Retardation

·         Childhood Emotional Disorders

·         Delusional Disorders

·         Dysthymic and Cyclothymic Disorders

Clinical Sessions

These sessions aim to improve the student’s clinical skills under the supervision of the consultant. The specific objectives are to help the student learn how to:

1.     Recognize psychiatric signs and symptoms

2.     Formulate a list of differential diagnoses

3.     Consider a treatment plan with emphasis on the biopsychosocial model.

The students are required to achieve these objectives by interviewing real patients in the presence of the consultant and fellow students. This activity is followed by a discussion of the clinical findings, leading to a hypothesis of the possible diagnoses and how to sort them out and treat accordingly.

Reading List

·         Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students, Allan Stoudemire, Lippincott.  

·         Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. Gelder. M., Gath D, Mayou R. Oxford University Press.

·         Synopsis of Psychiatry. A. Kaplan and B. Sadock. LW & W. 

·         Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. G. Gomez. 

·         Basic Psychiatry. Dr. Mohammed Alsughayir.

Examinations:

·         CAT examination will be at the end of the 4th week including a total of 25 MCQ Questions: 15 True/False with a negative marking (-¼) marks for each wrong answer and 10 single best answer with a total of 25 marks.

·         15 marks will be divided between the following:

o    Tutorials  – 5 marks

o    Casebook – 2 marks for 1st case and 3 marks for 2nd case

o    Group discussion – 5 marks

·         Final examination will be all in the OSCE Format (Objective Structured Clinical Exam) including one station for all students as a long case video for 15 minutes and 15 minutes examination and another 12 stations of 3 minutes each where the total will be 60 marks. 

Undergraduate Training in Psychology:

Each semester the department receives fourth-year psychology students to introduce them to the clinical environment and familiarize them with the medical aspects of psychological problems. 

Undergraduate Training in Social Work:

This training of social work students also familiarize them with the social problems related to psychiatric populations and how both interact. 

Student Affairs:

·         Results of Exam: CAT, Final

·         Cancellation of an Activity ?

·         Other announcements  

Postgraduate Training Program:

 

Saudi Board in Psychiatry:

The department is a major training site for the Saudi Board Training in Psychiatry program, accepting 10-12 residents every 6 months. The available rotations include general psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, child and adolescence psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy. The regulations of such training are primarily the responsibility of the Saudi Council for Health Specialties. The department is also recognized as a training site for the Arab Board in Psychiatry.

Postgraduate Training in Psychology

From time to time, the department welcome psychologist who are pursuing a postgraduate degree, either from King Saud University or otherwise. The department provides them with the clinical experience and patients needed to complete the candidate's project. For graduate psychologists who would like to gain more experience by working as volunteers, a letter of intent should be directed to the hospital’s administration.

 

 

Click the below links to download the department education programs: 

Undergraduate Course PSYCH I 461.pdf

Postgraduate Training Program (PSY).pdf