PSYC 419 - Psychiatry Acting Internship

[152 Hours]

This four-week rotation provides senior students with the opportunity to begin functioning as interns with supervision from faculty and upper level residents. The course is offered at three locations: the DePaul campus of the Interim LSU Public Hospital (ILH), the ILH main campus, Childrens Hospital-Calhoun Campus, and Our Lady of the Lake Hospital (OLOL) in Baton Rouge. At each site, students work side-by-side with the first-year residents, and participate in on-call experiences and didactics. Particular emphasis is given to improving skills of clinical judgment and decision-making. Students are encouraged to take increasing amounts of patient care responsibility while under close supervision. In addition to improving their patient care skills, students will also enhance their communication skills and develop skills in systems based practice through their involvement with the health care team. Students will continue to develop their medical knowledge and skills of practice based learning through reading, didactic lectures, and conferences. The DePaul and OLOL sites offer general adult psychiatry experiences, while the Childrens Hospital site is an adult and child psychiatry experience. Students choosing the ILH main campus acting internship will work primarily within the two hospital-based consult services, emergency psychiatry and general consult-liaison psychiatry.