Psychiatria Konsultacyjna - kurs (Consultation-liaison Psychiatry -Course under patronage EPA)

Tematyka

Consultation-liaison psychiatry is one of the most interesting fields in psychiatry, a hot spot at the interface of psychological and somatic medicine. To be efficient and successful in this field, the CL-psychiatrist has to be knowledgeable and skillful in operating as an outpost of psychiatry in medical-surgical departments with quite different cultures than those accustomed to in psychiatric wards or clinics. He or she has to be prepared to manage difficult team solutions, mediating between staff and patients with somato-psychiatric comorbidity, learn to connect quickly to diffucult medically ill patients under time constraints, and above all know how to formulate organic differential diagnoses for "abnormal behavior" that has been deemed by medical staff prematurely to be "psychiatric".

Our course aims at developing these skills for beginners in CL-psychiatry, as well as providing the possibility to discuss and deepen the experience for seasoned ones. Hence, we have put together a program touching upon different areas relevant to our field, such as delirium, depression, drug interactions, DBT-skills for difficult patients in the general hospital, and many others. Internationally renowned experts from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands and England will be part of the course faculty.