Psychiatry

The purpose I share my medical syllabus during my era is to help me know the topic should I revise during my free time to improve my medical knowledge and to give an idea for future medical students about the topic they would learn in medical school.

Topic of Psychiatry discussed during my time in Medical School:

A. LECTURE:

1. 3rd semester:

a. Growth and Development:

- Mental-emotional development in school-age children: Psychosexual-psychocognitive-psychosocial-moral development, disorder (and management) of mental-emotional development

2. 6th semester:

a. Brain and Mind System:

- Streams in psychiatry

- Personality

- Emotion

- Intelligence

- Leadership

- Symptomatology of Psychiatry: Thought disorder, affect-mood-emotion disorder, psychomotor disorder, perception disorder, memory disorder, orientation disorder

- Ego defense mechanism

- Personality disorder

- Anxiety disorder: Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post trauma stress disorder

- Somatoform disorder: Somatisation disorder, hypochondric disorder, conversion disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, pain somatoform disorder

- Addictive substance: Abuse, addiction, withdrawal syndrome, tolerancy, intoxication

- Sexual disorder: Sexual deviation, sexual identity disorder, homosexual, sexual disturbance

- Psychosomatic disorder

- Forensic psychiatry

- Organic mental disorder: Dementia, delirium, organic hallucinosis

- Mood disorder: Bipolar affective disorder, depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, cyclothymia

- Persistent delusional disorder

- Schizophrenia

- Reactive psychosis

- Psychogeriatric

- Psychophamacology: Antipsychotic, antidepressant, antianxiety, mood stabilizer

- Psychotherapy

- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

b. Emergency Medicine:

- Psychiatric emergencies: Schizophrenia, puerperal psychosis, reactive psychosis, bipolar disorder, acute manic episode with psychotic symptom

3. 7th semester:

a. Tropical Medicine:

- Tropical infection in psychiatric disease: mental disorder, delirium, dementia, amnestic disorder, mood disorder, psychotic disorder, anxiety disorder, catatonic disorder, personality change disorder

B. SKILLS LABORATORY (OSCE):

1. 6th semester:

a. Brain and Mind System:

- General history taking and doctor-patient communication in psychiatric cases

- History taking of family history and doctor-patient communication in psychiatric cases

- History taking of detailed biography and doctor-patient communication in psychiatric cases

- History taking of social history and doctor-patient communication in psychiatric cases

- Examination of mental status

C.TUTORIAL:

1. 6th semester:

a. Brain and Mind System:

- Ego defense mechanism 

- Personality disorder

- Organic mental disorder: Dementia, delirium, organic hallucinosis

- Mood disorder: Bipolar affective disorder, depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, cyclothymia

- Persistent delusional disorder

- Schizophrenia

- Reactive psychosis

*This medical syllabus copied and edited from 1 manual book for 3rd semester medical student, 2 manual books for 6th semester medical student and 1 manual book for 7th semester medical student from my university during my era. 
**The topic currently discussed in my university may different from this syllabus due to progression of medical knowledge and improvement of quality for medical syllabus based on my university assessment.