We don't require a textbook. However, it is highly recommended to have some source of info while on the clerkship. The following are recommended text that may supplement your online reading, and help you in better understanding your clinical experience.

TRADITIONAL BOOKS

Handbook: Bauer, Mark S., Field Guide to Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment, 1st Edition. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003. --See it at Amazon.com--a good guide to have with your on service, concise, with lots of good reference tables and lists.

Textbook: Andreasen Nancy, Black, Donald, Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, 3rd Edition. Washington D.C., American Psychiatric Publishing, INC., 2001. --See it at Amazon.com--if there is a gold standard psychiatry textbook for medical students, this is it.

ONLINE RESOURCES

In addition to traditional texts, Brown has a number of online resources as part of the virtual library at Brown. If off-campus you first have to authenticate with your ID and password. Once doing this, navigate to "e-resources at Brown". Under Find Electronic books, choose the link for E-book collections and major texts. From there choose "Re-sort by subject" and look at the medicine link. There you can find some useful texts both through Medscape and Ovid.

Medscape: if you choose the link for Medscape, you will be taken to MD Consult. There, choose the tab for "Books". The books are arranged by subject. Under Psychiatry, you will find:

Moore & Jefferson: Handbook of Medical Psychiatry, 2nd ed. , 2004 Mosby, Inc. A very well organized textbook, arranged by disease, and using what should be a familar medically oriented approach to describing each psychiatric disease.

Jacobson: Psychiatric Secrets, 2nd ed. 2001 Hanley and Belfus. A good, concise handbook style text, arranged in question-and-answer format.

Books @ Ovid:

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th edition by Sadock and Sadock. This is probably the most popular textbook of psychiatry, but very large and probably too comprehensive for a clerkship. Still, if you want the fullest possible information available in a textbook, this is a good place to look.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd edition, by Melvin Lewis. Like the title says, this is a big book concentrating on child psychiatry.

Resources on this Site

In addition to the above, you can find a variety of resources including readings and videos on this site. Just go to the didactics section for this course Web CT site.