MSD 2013-14


  • Deliberate self-harm (11.9.2013)

Part 1

  • Epidemiology of DSH
  • Psychological basis of suicidal behavior
  • Assessment of DSH

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Physician-assisted suicide
  • Suicide pacts
  • Mass suicide
  • Suicide and religion

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
       a.              Debriefing the potentially suicidal patient
       b. Ethical dilemmas in DSH
       c.  Management of DSH
            Objectives:

  • Understand and define suicide terminology
  • Know epidemiology and demographics of suicide (DSH)
  • Describe predisposing factors and immediate precursors of suicide (DSH)
  • Understand and measure suicidal intent
  • Assessment of suicidal (parasuicidal) patient
  • Management of suicidal (parasuicidal) patient
  • Mechanisms behind, and prevention of
  • Physician assisted suicide
  • Mass suicide
  • Suicidal pacts
  • Prevention of suicide

 

  • Women-specific Psychiatric Disorders (18.9.2013)

Part 1

  • Hormonal and endocrinologic changes during pregnancy, puerperium, and menopause
  • Attachment
  • Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Postpartum mood disorders
  • Postpartum blues
  • Postpartum psychosis

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  •  Teratogenicity of psychotropic medication
  •  Management of women-specific disorders

Objectives:

  • To understand what is Perinatal Psychiatry
  • Review Hormonal and endocrinologic changes during pregnancy, puerperium, and menopause.
  • Understand theory of Attachment
  • Review the main psychiatric disorders during pregnancy
  • Review postpartum psychiatric disorders
  • Psychotropics and their use in pregnancy/post-partum.
  • Management
  • Stress- Related Disorders (25.9.2013)

Part 1

  • The concept &Epidemiology
  • The psychological basis of stress
  • Biological correlates of stress
  • Short-term and long-term effects of stress

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Relaxation exercises
  • Meditation
  • Hypnosis

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  • Personality profile of terrorist
  • Handling terrorism
  • Psychological treatment of terror victims

Objectives:

  • Concepts and epidemiology aiming at explaining how common we are exposed to different psychological trauma, its consequences, and different reactions to them.
  • personality profile of terrorist
  • Handling terrorism: there are different ways to prevent or ameliorate the terrorism rather than governmental security solution.
  • Psychological treatment of victims aiming at explaining the reality that CBT is the main treatment and not pharmacology.
  • Exercise: The “New” Treatment in Mental Health (2.10.2013)

Part 1

  • Acute and chronic effects of exercise on the organism
  • Role of exercise in health promotion and disease prevention
  • Exercise and the Neurobiology of Mood

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Psychological effects of individual and group exercise
  • Over-exercise: obsession, body image and the media
  • Adherence: How can exercise be sustainable
  • Prescribing Exercise: How to effectively counsel your patient

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  • Exercise: psychological well-being and facilitation through public policy
  • Exercise treatment in Mental Health

Objectives:

  • Enhanced knowledge of the physiological changes that occur during acute exercise, as well as, chronic changes to physiology and homeostasis.
  • Improved skills in linking basic science physiological data to gross changes that occur in the organism as a result of acute and chronic exercise.
  • Awareness of the importance of exercise in preventing pathological physiological process and awareness of any physiological contraindications to intensive exercise.
  • Enhanced knowledge of the effects of exercise on the “macro’ level pathophysiology linked to specific medical illnesses, especially Metabolic Dysregulation, CVD and Fibromyalgia (common comorbidities with mood disorders).
  • Improved skills in understanding medical indications, contraindications and “dosing” of exercise, especially when prescribed as a treatment.
  • Attitudinal shifts towards viewing exercise not only as a vague generalized recommendation, rather as an essential, specifically-dosed part of a comprehensive treatment regimen.
  • Enhanced knowledge of the presumed effects of physical exercise on the neurobiology of mood disorders.
  • Awareness of existent evidence and future research utilizing physical exercise in treatment of mood disorders.
  • Skills in developing a novel approach to the treatment of mood disorders, with exercise as a key component.
  • Enhanced knowledge of the effects of individual and group exercise in improving psychological well-being.
  • Increased skills in deciding when and how to recommend exercise in a way that maximizes adherence and effectiveness.
  • Awareness of the public health concept of the urban/built environment and how this can facilitate or discourage exercise.
  • Enhanced knowledge of the effect of exercise on various mental health issues beyond mood disorders
  • Increased skills in initiating and facilitating exercise for mentally ill patients
  • Attitudinal shifts towards a holistic approach to mental health treatment that extends conventionally used treatment approaches.
  • Substance abuse (9.10.2013)

Part 1

  • Terminology: use, abuse, dependence, addiction
  • Biological basis of substance abuse
  • Assessment of an addict

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Anabolic steroids abuse
  • Smoking cessation
  • Cannabis: judicious use/abuse

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  • Management 1: from treatment oriented to recovery oriented
  • Management 2: Multidisciplinary approach
  • Substance abuse in Kuwait

 

Objectives:

  • Identify the biological aspect of addiction
  • To define addiction
  • To recognize the behavioral and the psychological features of patients suffering of addiction
  • To identify the physiological and the psychological effect of the major substances of abuse
  • To be able to draw a basic management plan for a patient suffering of addiction     
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry (23.10.2013)

Part 1

  • Epidemiology
  • Separation anxiety
  • Autism

Part 2 (Student-led activity)

  • Media and youth violence
  • Suicide in children and adolescents
  • Bullying 

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  • Upbringing: parenting problems
  • Management

                        1. Prevention of childhood disorders

  • Management

      2. Treatment of childhood disorders
Objectives:

  • Familiar with the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,  definition,  target population and general approach
  • Familiar with the epidemiology of major psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
  • Exposed to case based teaching and real encounters of the field in Kuwait 
  • Familiar with the management approach of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents 
  • Familiar with public health issues related to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry like, promoting good parenting and mental health in children, bullying, media and violence, and suicide in adolescents.  
  • Sleep disorders (30.10.2013)

Part 1

  • Physiology of sleep
  • Assessment of  insomnia
  • Parasomnias

Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Dreams:

  • Mechanism
  • Interpretation
  • Diagnostic significance

Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)

  • Sleep hygiene
  • Psychopharamotherapy in insomnia
  • Management of insomnia

Objectives:

  • Assessment of insomnia: How to proceed and deal with a patient complaining of difficulty falling asleep?
  • Parasomnias: To know all the behavioral events that occur during sleep and how to deal with them.
  • Management of insomnia: good sleep hygiene