A Psychiatric Track Program: Design and Experience
PAUL JAY FINK M.D.1, and
RICHARD E. HICKS M.D.2
1 Professor and Director of Education and Training, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College, 230 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
2 Associate Professor and Associate Director of Education and Training, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College, 230 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
The design, implementation, and first year's experience in the operation of a psychiatry track program for medical students is discussed, with particular attention to the educational objectives of the track; the inclusion of a 12-week multidisciplinary period of seminars in anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychopharmacology, neuropathology, neuroanatomy, genetics, human sexuality, and psychopathology; and a system of clinical electives permitting the students considerable flexibility in focusing or diversifying their clinical experience.
