Psychiatric Crisis Management

Opportunity to experience a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to the care of psychiatric patients. The Crisis Resolution Unit, a 14-bed unit with length of stay approximately 7 -10 days.  Students electing this advanced clerkship will be assigned to a specific team, and will have an opportunity of working independently with patients with a wide variety of Psychiatry Disorders (psychosis, mania, severe depression, dementia) under direct supervision of an attending psychiatrist.  A three-week rotation.  Harbor-UCLA.  Prerequisite:  clerkship in psychiatry.