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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
– thought disorder
– memory
– psycho-motor abilities
– perception
– motivation, intellect and personality
The ability of noticing states of potential psychiatric emergency
The ability to recognize specific symptoms that can refer to any hidden psychiatric problem
which is not told by the patients
The ability of summarizing all the gained information in a detailed case report
The ability of establishing a tentative diagnosis and to know what kind of tests (either laboratory
or psychological or neuro-radiological, etc) are needed for the correct diagnosis
Being aware of the most important effects and side/adverse effects of drugs used in psychiatry
To learn that the practitioner must always consider the possible existence of psychiatric
disorders even when there are a lot of somatic symptoms, since they can also appear as a
result of psychiatric diseases
We have 5 wards with different profiles in our Clinic. Students must join these wards according their
schedule made by our training coordinator. Everybody has a tutor on the ward he or she belongs
to. The tutor presents the specific profile of that particular ward, but they also have the opportunity
to go and see other wards, too. They spend a day at the outpatient department of our Clinic, which
is very useful because there are many patient examinations referred from the other departments of
the Semmelweis University. Therefore, they can gain an impression about the most important
psychiatric features of internal medicine, neurology, surgery etc. Students must join for one
all-night-duty and they have to take part in the emergency treatment performed during this period.
Under the supervision of an appointed physician, students have to:
Participate in the work of one unit;
Evaluate patients independently;
Write a detailed case history of one patient, which has to be presented at the exam;
Participate in consultations.
Internship has to be completed at a Department of a University or in a Hospital/Teaching Hospital,
which has a contract with a University. Students completing the internship abroad have to present
a letter of evaluation indicating their performance during the internship and a grade from 5
(excellent) to 1 (failure).
Requirements
1. The 6 th year includes a 4-weeks-long rotation in Psychiatry in a hospital or clinic which is
accredited for teaching by Semmelweis University.
2. If you want to complete your rotation abroad, then before you start it, you must present at
our department an officially stamped statement of acceptance issued by the teaching
hospital abroad where you intend to spend your rotation.
BE AWARE: The Statement of Acceptance for the 4-weeks Psychiatry internship
requested from practice places abroad must state:
a) The training place abroad is a teaching hospital
b) The brief description of how Psychiatry is taught in that institution
c) The name of the responsible tutor (name, e-mail)
3. The Psychiatry practice must consist of 8 hours on 15 (4x5) workdays at psychiatric wards.
Students participate in the everyday work of the wards, in patients’ admission, in ward
rounds and in therapeutic decisions. One all-night-duty is part of the rotation period.
4. Writing a case report during rotation period is a task for every student. A sample case report
is available at the website of our department
(http://www.sote.hu/intezetek/oktatas/7inst id=51 &page id=5).