General Psychiatry

PROGRAM:

Consultation-Liaison Service

DIRECTOR:

Brenda Talley, M.D.

DESCRIPTION:

The Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service at University Hospital and the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital is a 2—month full—time rotation for all second-year residents in psychiatry and a 1—month full-time rotation for all fourth-year residents. Two third-year medical students take their psychiatry clerkship on the service each 6 weeks. In addition, the service is an elective for fourth-year medical students and Pharm.D residents.

PERSONNEL:

4 Faculty, 1 Administrative Assistant, 3 Psychiatric Residents

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:

Training Program in C-L Psychiatry

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

A Study of Physiologic Mechanisms by Which Depression and Ischemic Heart Disease Might Be Linked

PATIENT SERVICES:

Prevalence of executive repairment in patients seen by a psychiatry consult service (schillerstrom JE etal - Psychosomantics, in press)

HOW DO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS CONTACT THE PROGRAM?:

Please call Ms. Hilda C. Cheatum, Administrative Assistant I, at (210) 567-5450.