Practical: Psychiatric Anamnesis
Full course description
Students will practice differential diagnostic reasoning, and determine DSM-5 diagnoses based on a first interview, that is a psychiatric anamnesis (more specifically, anamnesis of the various complaints and symptoms and a mental state examination) with simulation patients suffering from various prevalent mental disorders The practical consists of an opening lecture and six 2-hour meetings lead by a clinically experienced trainer. The meetings will be thematically linked to the Psychopathology course. Between the meetings, videos will be analysed to learn about diagnostic interviewing and to determine transdiagnostic features of psychopathology (e.g., mental state examination) and during the meetings short interviews will be held with a specific simulation patient, with differential diagnostic peer discussions in between, and determining DSM-5 diagnosis at the end. Finally, students will write a case report on one of the patients, based on the information provided. This practical course will be evaluated on attendance (100%) and a passing grade for the case report.
During the practical ‘psychiatric anamnesis’, knowledge (diagnostics, classification, disorders, symptoms, treatments) from the module ‘Psychopathology’ is used. Students that do not/did not follow this module are expected to gain this knowledge themselves before the start of the practical. Also, students are assumed to have knowledge of psychological conversation skills (year 1).
The final assessment for this course is a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.
Course objectives
Students are able:
- To understand and use the DSM-5 classification for diagnosing and apply it to the cases in the practical;
- To perform differential diagnostic reasoning;
- To understand and recognize transdiagnostic features, ie., those as determined by the Mental State Examination
- To use professional terminology (in both word and writing)