Welcome to Medical Student Education in Psychiatry here at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. I am Debbie Dellmore, M.D. the Director of Medical Student Education. Along with the help of Mary Haley, the Psychiatry Clerkship Coordinator, I delight in introducing medical students to psychiatric principles and reasoning as well as psychiatric patient interviewing, evaluation, and management, throughout their four years of medical training.
In the first year of medical school, students participate in the Neuroscience Block in which they receive lectures from our psychiatric faculty on development and psychopathology, they participate in small group Problem Based Learning tutorials with psychiatric cases, and they are introduced to mental status exam skills in small group sessions and to interviewing in expert-led, patient interviews in the lecture hall.
During the clinical years, every UNM medical student will rotate through the four week Psychiatry Clerkship. The psychiatry clerkship is a well rounded exposure to psychiatric patients and clinical care as well as building psychiatric knowledge and reasoning in weekly, interactive and clinically focused didactic sessions. The students spend most of their time working on an inpatient multidisciplinary team learning how to care for acutely psychiatrically ill patients while being supervised by a Psychiatric Resident Physician and Attending Physician. They will also participate in the care of outpatients once a week at the VA’s Psychiatry Primary Care Clinic or at the University Psychiatric Center’s General Clinic. Student Clerks are welcomed into the ‘family’ of psychiatrists here at UNM and will attend grand rounds and take call in the Psychiatric Emergency Service. We welcome those interested in psychiatry but also aim to provide knowledge and experience for all medical student clerks to prepare them for interviewing and establishing rapport with patients, evaluating and treating psychotic, mood, anxiety and addictions disorders while assessing risk, and how and when to consult psychiatry.
Fourth Year Students and Externs may elect to spend a month with us on one or more of our exciting preparatory sub-internships…
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University Psychiatric Center Adult
Outpatient General Clinic
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University Psychiatric Center Adult
or Geriatric Inpatient Unit
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VA Medical Center Inpatient Unit
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Psychiatry Consult Liaison Service at
the VA Medical Center or UNM Hospital
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Children’s Psychiatric Hospital
Inpatient or Outpatient Services with exposure to Correctional Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry at the Detention Home
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Addictions Psychiatry at ASAP
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Neuropsychology Clinic
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Coming! Neuroimaging Elective at the
MIND Institute and the VA Medical Center
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Developmental Disabilities Clinic
Please explore our site and join us for a rotation! I look forward to working with you.
Sincerely,
Debbie Dellmore, M.D.
