Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine—Osteopathic Medicine Program 63 establish professional working relationships with members of a multidisciplinary mental health treatment team. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8036B—Psychiatry: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry This four-week, elective course is designed to give students interested in psychiatry a more focused experience in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry. The student will work with attending physicians and/or residents in a variety of settings that may include a combination of outpatient clinics, residential facilities, hospitals, rural community mental health facilities, and/or schools. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8036C—Psychiatry: Forensic Psychiatry The objective of this rotation is to provide a clinical experience in forensic psychiatry, thereby increasing the students’ skills, knowledge, and comfort in the interface between psychiatry and the law. The student will work up some inpatients and may help prepare some written reports for the court. There is no night call, but students will be available five days a week. The basic psychiatry rotation is a prerequisite for this rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8036D—Psychiatry: Geriatric Psychiatry This is a four-week rotation that will provide experience and information in the psychiatric care of the geriatric patient. This will expose the student to inpatient and ambulatory care in the geriatric population. Among the patients are those who are community dwelling, inpatient, undergoing palliative care, and in the hospice unit. It is required that students have been though both the basic psychiatry and geriatric rotations. Students will gain medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and socialbehavioral sciences and the application of this knowledge to geriatric patient care. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037—Radiology: Diagnostic The purpose of the elective is to teach the appropriate use of radiology as a diagnostic tool, as well as to teach the fundamentals of X-ray interpretation. This will involve all areas of diagnostic radiology and will provide the student with a base of information of great use during postgraduate education and practice. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037A—Radiology: Diagnostic—Abdominal Radiology After completion of the initial diagnostic radiology rotation COM 8037, the student may choose to take this elective rotation. It will be an introduction to abdominal imaging and include, but not be limited to, abdominal X-ray studies; ultrasound of the GI, GU, and vascular structures; CT; CT colonography; and MRI. The preceptor and student will outline available studies and course expectations prior to the beginning of the rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037B—Radiology: Diagnostic—Cardiothoracic Radiology After completion of the initial diagnostic radiology rotation COM 8037, the student may choose to take this elective rotation. It will be an introduction to basic chest X-ray and interpretation, cardiac CT, coronary CTA, pulmonary CT angiography, and radionuclear chest studies. It may also include echocardiography, dependent on the prior rotations of the student. The preceptor and student will outline available studies and course expectations prior to the beginning of the rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037C—Radiology: Diagnostic—Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology After completion of the initial diagnostic radiology rotation COM 8037, and completion of surgical rotations I and II, the student may choose to take this elective rotation. It will involve the observation and participation in endovascular surgical neuroradiology procedures, with integration of the techniques into appropriate patient management. Appropriate management includes the recognition of the importance of signs and symptoms and the understanding of indications for, and contraindications to, endovascular surgical neuroradiology procedures. The preceptor and the student will outline available studies and course expectations prior to the beginning of the rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037D—Radiology: Diagnostic—Musculoskeletal Radiology After completion of the initial diagnostic radiology rotation COM 8037, and completion of surgical rotations I and II, the student may choose to take this elective rotation. It will involve the observation and participation in endovascular surgical neuroradiology procedures, with integration of the techniques into appropriate patient management. Appropriate management includes the recognition of the importance of signs and symptoms and the understanding of indications for, and contraindications to, endovascular surgical neuroradiology procedures. The preceptor and the student will outline available studies and course expectations prior to the beginning of the rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours) COM 8037E—Radiology: Diagnostic—Neuroradiology After completion of the initial diagnostic radiology rotation COM 8037, the student may choose to take this elective rotation. It will involve the observation of and participation in neuroradiology procedures, with integration of the techniques into appropriate patient management. Appropriate management includes the recognition of the importance of signs and symptoms and the understanding of indications for, and contraindications to, performing neuroradiology procedures. The preceptor and student will outline available studies and course expectations prior to the beginning of the rotation. (4.0–8.0 credit hours)
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