Didactics Information
Psychiatry Didactics for all students in the clerkship are scheduled for Thursdays from 1pm-3pm PST.
There may be one or two didactics depending on the week.
There will be no didactics on the last Thursday of the clerkship.
Didactics are in person for students at HMC and on Zoom for students at other sites.
Weekly topics, physical location, and zoom links are posted to the Psychiatry Canvas site, please reach out to Margie Trenary, trenam@uw.edu if you have any questions.
There may be additional site-specific teaching.
Topics that may be present are:
| Addiction |
| Anxiety Disorders |
| Childhood Diagnoses |
| Dementia |
| Depression |
| ECT |
| Future of Psychiatry |
| How to Communicate with a Consulting Psychiatrist |
| Interviewing TIPS |
| Managing Mental Illness in Outpatients |
| Personality Disorders |
| Psychodynamics |
| Psychopharmacology |
| Psychosis |
| Psychotherapy |
| Resilience and Suffering |
Additional educational materials, including past recorded didactics on various topics, may be found on the Psychiatry Canvas website under “Didactics.”
This material is supplementary and optional.