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Psychiatry Mentor: Your Clerkship & Shelf Exam Companion, 2nd Edition

By Michael R. Privitera, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Service; Director, Mood and Anxiety Disorder Clinic; Medical Director, Strong Family Therapy Services, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
Jeffrey M. Lyness, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Chair for Education; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Program; Director, Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1692-9
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1692-9

300 pp. 13 ill. Soft cover.  ©2009  Available now. $42.95

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Clerkship advantage can be yours. Each title in this new series packs all the information for a core clerkship rotation into just 350 pocket-sized pages. An outline format with hundreds of review questions, full-color illustrations, sidebars, and appendices helps you find the information you need to know to survive the rotation, excel on the shelf exam, and succeed on the USMLE Step 2 exam.
Key Features
  • Bonus CD-ROM with more than 300 shelf exam-style questions and answers.
  • Content based on Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) guidelines and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) classifications.
  • State-of-the-art Mentor Tips on diagnoses, workups, treatments, and ethicolegal issues.
  • New coverage of drug and drug interaction issues.
  • New symptom-driven differential diagnosis chapter.
  • Expanded content on common mood disorders.
  • The perspective of experienced psychiatrists on how real clinical practice draws on psychiatry’s various theoretical models.

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Table of Contents
 


I. Psychiatry as a Field of Medicine
1. Introduction to Psychiatry
2. Theories of Human Behavior
II. Psychiatric Workup
3. History and Physical Examination
4. Mental Status Examination
5. Laboratory Evaluations and
Psychological Testing
6. Diagnostic Impression, Formulation,
and Plan
III. Psychopathology. Disorders and
Clinical Presentations
7. Psychiatric Emergencies and Urgent
Care Issues
8. Cognitive and Secondary (“Organic”)
Mental Disorders
9. Mood Disorders
10. Psychotic Disorders
11. Anxiety Disorders
12. Substance Use Disorders
13. Personality Traits and Disorders
14. Other Psychopathologic Categories
IV. Psychiatric Treatments
15. Psychotherapies
16. Pharmacotherapy
17. Other Somatic Therapies
V. Treatment Settings and Subspecialties
18. Treatment Settings, Systems, and
other Clinical Issues
19. Psychiatric Subspecialties
Appendices
A. Answers to Self-test Questions
B. Glossary of Frequently Used Psychiatric
Terms
C. Key to Frequently Used Psychiatric
Abbreviations


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