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BMRI5053: Bodies, Brains and Minds in Connection
2023 unit information
This unit of study provides Stage 2 psychiatry trainees and other select clinicians with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes in biopsychosociocultural approaches, Consultation Liaison (CL) Psychiatry and integrative medicine by exploring psychiatry at the interface with medicine and society. The unit's approach will emphasise the interconnectedness of body, brain and mind in individuals and surrounding systems. What's different about CL will be explored in this unit grounded in an understanding of the normal and dysregulated responses to stress, trauma and medical illness including pain, expanding Stage 1 concepts of formulation, multimodal and tailormade management. Principles of containment, stigma and models of care in medical settings will be studied, as will disorders of basic regulation, sleep, eating and sexual disorders. We will examine psychiatry in particular settings, the Perinatal period, Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Pain, Oncology, Spinal, Burns, Neuropsychiatry. This unit will also deepen knowledge of ECT and introduce the newer biological treatments such as TMS. This unit aims to enrich the trainee psychiatrist's approaches to working collaboratively with consumers, families, treatment teams and care systems in multidisciplinary hospital and community settings. Seminars will emphasise an enquiring approach based on evidence and engagement with the background of medical and general communities.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Brain and Mind Science
| Code | BMRI5053 |
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| Academic unit | Brain and Mind Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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| Assumed knowledge:
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BMRI5003 and BMRI5050 Knowledge and skills at the level of completion of Stage 1 Psychiatry training |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand the similarities and differences of working in Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry and illustrate this through a closer knowledge of one or more C-L contexts
- LO2. Demonstrate a developing knowledge of systems in healthcare settings
- LO3. Demonstrate an understanding of the particular medication needs of the medically ill or frail
- LO4. Understand and apply concepts of stress, coping and stress dysregulation in individuals and systems, including grief, loss, trauma and pain
- LO5. Develop biopsychosociocultural formulations for C-L problems and develop relevant integrated multimodal management plans
- LO6. Demonstrate and apply an understanding of stigma, cultural competence and the role of containment and conflict resolution in C-L contexts
- LO7. Understand and evaluate adjustment to illness and the sick role and the potential impact on normal development, comorbidity and health care presentations
- LO8. Understand the impact of psychiatric illness on medical health and well-being
- LO9. Critically appraise the use of ECT and novel neuropsychiatric treatments
Unit availability
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