The course “Psychiatry” is the required fourth-year course of the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Medicine in English. It consists of 96 hours of class: lectures (18 hours), seminars (40 hours), practicals (38 hours) (ECTS 5).

Psychiatry is a clinical discipline that helps students to achieve knowledge about psychiatric disorders that are common in general practice. Students need to understand and master their skills in communication with the psychiatric patient, with accent on biopsychosocial understanding of mental illnesses. During the course, students will learn how to recognize and treat different acute and chronic mental disorders common in general practice. Also, they will learn to distinguish what mental disorders could be cured within the primary health care setting and which should be referred to the specialist in psychiatry.  During the course, students will get to know the method of interviewing and approaching the patients with mental disorders. Also, they should familiarize themselves to symptoms, syndromes, and entities in psychiatric psychopathology. Students will learn about main groups of psychiatric disorders, including basic therapy principles. It is necessary that students understand prodromal psychiatric symptoms and identify and diagnose mental illnesses, as well as learn how to provide treatment or referral to a specialist. They will hear about the principles of classification of psychiatric disorders. Because of the increase in the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse disorders, these critical issues will be addressed. Patients with mental disorders are often experiencing problems with reintegration, therefore we educate students about options in resocialisation in terms of community-oriented psychiatry. We should also accustom students to the ethical issues and stigmatisation in psychiatry.

 - demonstrate the knowledge of the mental health from the perspective of biopsychosocial concept

- recognise different clinical pictures and differentiate among the mental health diagnoses 

- develop a treatment plan for disorders that can be cured within the primary health care setting

- identify the organisational model of mental health care