Psychiatric Case Clerking for Medical Students

By Sharmilla Kanagasundram

This book PSYCHIATRIC CASE CLERKING FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS has its origins during the pandemic when the biweekly tutorials for the medical students at the university where I teach were held through zoom, google meet and teams. Wondering if students could understand what was being said I decided to make a word document which I sent to the tutorial students. Then I realized that this document actually simplified my work and produced better results in terms of completeness of clerking. In addition, I felt that this compilation made clerking simple, systematic and easy to understand for the undergraduate medical students. The contents of this book has been repeatedly used during my tutorials on the many batches of medical students I have had the pleasure to teach.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781543749663

Sharmilla Kanagasundram

Datin Dr Sharmilla Kanagasundram, is a consultant psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry working at a university hospital in Kuala Lumpur. She completed her Masters in Psychological Medicine at University Malaya in 2004 and Masters in antiaging, regenerative medicine and medical aesthetics in 2016 from University College Sedaya International.

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ISBN

978-1-5437-4965-6 (sc)

978-1-5437-4966-3 (e)

08/29/2022

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CONTENTS

SECTION 1

HISTORY TAKING AND MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION

SECTION 2

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES FOR PSYCHOTIC, MANIC AND DEPRESSIVE EPISODES

SECTION 3

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF MANAGEMENT

SECTION 4

HELPFUL QUESTIONS TO ELICIT SYMPTOMS FOR PSYCHOSIS, MANIC AND DEPRESSIVE EPISODE

PROLOGUE

This book PSYCHIATRIC CASE CLERKING FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS has its origins during the pandemic (2020-2022) when the biweekly tutorials for the medical students were held