Subject:
Psychiatry
Credit units:
6
College:
Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: Psychiatry
Description
The Mental Health Foundations course provides a comprehensive theoretical knowledge in the classification, etiology, epidemiology, phenomenology, diagnostic criteria and treatment principles for common mental disorders. It also provides a unique learning opportunity for self-reflection on the implications of stigma and the impact of mental illness at individual, family and societal levels.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate students enrolled in a MSc or PhD program in Health Sciences can register in this course if their research projects are supervised or co-supervised by faculty from the Department of Psychiatry. Students wishing to enroll in this course are required to have completed a minimum of two undergraduate courses in relevant disciplines or MSc in allied clinical (or health) and biomedical disciplines (e.g., at least 6 undergraduate course credits in Psychology/ Neuropsychology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Cell physiology Pharmacology Science, Nursing, Health Sciences, Statistics, and/or Neuroscience). Approval from the course instructor, his/her/their supervisor, and the Graduate Chair (Health Sciences, College of Medicine) is also required.
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