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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Undergraduate Medical Education program encompasses all four years of medical school. We coordinate and teach through an evidence-based curriculum. The NextGenMD curriculum launching in 2021 provides an earlier clinical experience and an encompassing perspective through an integrated clerkship module of psychiatry, neurology, and family medicine.
During both first and second years, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is charged with coordinating a section of the Doctoring course, Behavioral Aspects of Special Populations. Lectures, small groups, clinical vignettes or panels conducted under this theme include:
- Women’s Health
- Domestic Violence
- Children’s Mental Health
- International Health
- Cultural Competence
- Human Sexuality
- Poverty
- Behavioral Medicine
During their third year, students perform clinical clerkships through inpatient and outpatient clinical settings. A robust approach including virtual rounding and telemedicine was devised to empower such skills for future physicians. The duration of the clerkship is five weeks. Inpatient rotations include child psychiatry, adult psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry as well as consultation liaison psychiatry. Outpatient includes child and adult outpatient centers. Students have approximately twenty-four hours of lecture time, multiple hours of grand rounds and case presentations by the faculty and staff. Students experience an Objective Structured Clinical Examination with individualized feedback, tailored to master interview and communication skills.
During their fourth year, senior medical students may take several elective rotations in any of our services. The electives take place in a variety of inpatient and outpatient services across the three hospitals of the University of Miami, Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital, and the Miami VA Medical Center.