Selective Choices

Please see the current selective choices available and descriptions below along with the site. For more information, you can contact uge@psychiatry@lhsc.on.ca

LHSC/SJHC – General Psychiatry

This selective represents an experience in inpatient, outpatient or blended adult general mental health. Common diagnostic categories include mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance disorders, personality disorders and psychotic disorders.

LHSC/SJHC – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This selective is an inpatient or outpatient experience in a child or adolescent mental health unit or practice. Common experiences would include child and adolescent mental health assessments, family meetings and interdisciplinary care. Contact Child and Adolescent UGE Coordinator Dr. Heidi Haensel at Heidi.haensel@lhsc.on.ca for more information.

  • First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program (FEMAP) - Outpatient program for ages 16-25 with first episode mood and anxiety. Psychotherapy (individual and group) and medication treatment is offered. There is also addictions and family therapy.
  • Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI)
    CPRI is a tertiary care facility that provides comprehensive consultative services to children and youth with behavioural challenges with or without developmental disabilities. CPRI utilizes an interdisciplinary, strength-based approach in working with children and their families, and collaborates with community partners in providing care.
  • Vanier Childrens Services - Vanier serves children up to age 14 with severe behaviour issues. Vanier has a therapeutic kindergarten, outpatient, and residential treatment services. Clerks work closely with Vaniers child psychiatrist and allied health professionals.
  • Adolescent Inpatient Unit - Serves youth with complex mental health needs, helping families navigate adolescent developmental tasks within family and todays culture. Average admission 28 days. Students hone information gathering and rapport development skills.

LHSC/SJHC – Geriatric Psychiatry

This clinical experience places the student in an inpatient or outpatient practice that focuses on mental health care of the elder population. Contact geriatric UGE coordinator Dr. HaeRyun Park at haeryun.park@sjhc.london.on.ca for more information
Common clinical experiences will include mental health assessments for mood and anxiety, psychotic disorders in the elder population, cognitive assessments and experience with common medical and psychiatry comorbidities of aging. Students will have an opportunity to learn about ECT.

SJHC - Forensic Psychiatry: St. Thomas

Assessment and care of patients with mental illness within the legal system. Assessments include treatment for the mental illness, fitness to stand trial, criminal responsibility. Students may have the opportunity to attend court and Ontario Review Board (ORB) hearings or visit patients at Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) with attending. Please note that this selective is based in St. Thomas.

LHSC/SJHC/CPRI - Developmental Disabilities Program (DDP)

This clinical experience allows the student to work within a practice specializing in patients struggling with primary mental illness and developmental delay. This practice may represent primarily adults, primarily children, or a mix. Students have the opportunity to learn about assessment and care of patients with Autism, Learning Disorders, Communication Disorders with or without behavioural disturbances.

Community Psychiatry

This clinical experience embeds the student in a busy outpatient service providing psychiatric assessments for community based physicians. Common clinical experiences include assessment and management of patients with mood and anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder, personality disorder, substance use disorders and psychopharmacologic review.

LHSC – Centralized Emergency Psychiatry Service (CEPS)

Emergency psychiatry consultation and care in ER setting, delivered as part of an inter-professional team model.

LHSC – Urgent Consultation Service

This clinical experience embeds the student in a very busy outpatient consultation service providing psychiatric assessments for community based physicians and referrals from ER. Common clinical experiences include assessment and management of patients with mood and anxiety disorder, substance use disorders and psychopharmacologic review.

LHSC - Acute Psychosis/Early Intervention Program (PEPP)

This clinical experience embeds the student in an interprofessional team specializing in the care of patients with psychotic disorders, particularly in young adults manifesting these symptoms for the first time. Common clinical experiences will include assessment of psychosis in all its manifestations, medical legal aspects of managing acutely mentally ill patients and psychopharmacology in young adults.

LHSC- Consult Liaison Service

Inpatient consultation-based service providing psychiatric consultation to inpatients bedded on medical or surgical hospital units.

SJHC – Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSI)

The OSI Clinic provides specialized mental health services to veterans, currently serving members of the Canadian Forces, and eligible members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who are experiencing mental health challenges as a result of their operational services. The clinic also provides services to clients' families in support of their loved one's recovery.

SJHC – Shared Care Program

This clinical experience embeds the student in an outpatient consultation service providing psychiatric assessments for referrals from a family medicine practice and share information regarding community based resources. Common clinical experiences include assessment and management of patients with mood and anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder, personality disorder, substance use disorders and psychopharmacologic review. The student will have an opportunity to visit the family medical centres, understand the principles of collaborative care and shared responsibility.

SJHC - Treatment and Rehabilitation – Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

In this clinical experience, the student would be embedded in an outpatient intensive treatment program for people living with severe and persistent mental illness using principles of Psycho Social Rehabilitation (PSR). Student will have the opportunity to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team and also do home visits. Common clinical experiences include psychopharmacology in treatment resistant illness, rehabilitation of the persistently mentally ill, and the medico- legal aspects of providing care to people with serious and persistent mental illness. This can be in inpatient/ambulatory care settings or both.

SJHC – Treatment and Rehabilitation (Assessment Program) at Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care

The Assessment Program (inpatient) cares for individuals with serious mental illness who require specialized diagnostic assessment using principles of Psycho Social Rehabilitation (PSR). Care includes assessment and initial stabilization with recommendations for further treatment, rehabilitation, and community reintegration. Referrals include LHSC and a wide catchment area of South Western Ontario.

SJHC – Treatment and Rehabilitation (psychosis units) at Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care

This clinical experience embeds the student in a practice focusing on care and management of adults with severe and persistent chronic psychotic disorders using principles of Psycho Social Rehabilitation (PSR). Common clinical experiences include psychopharmacology in treatment resistant illness, rehabilitation of the persistently mentally ill, and the medico- legal aspects of providing care to people with chronic psychotic disorders. This can be in inpatient/ambulatory care settings or both.

SJHC - Treatment and Rehabilitation (mood and anxiety disorders) at Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care

This clinical experience embeds the student in a practice focusing on care and management of adults with severe and persistent Mood/Anxiety/Personality disorders using principles of Psycho Social Rehabilitation (PSR). Common clinical experiences include psychopharmacology in treatment resistant illness, rehabilitation of the persistently mentally ill, and the medico- legal aspects of providing care to people with chronic psychiatric disorders. This can be in inpatient/ambulatory care settings or both.Students wil have an opportunity to attend ECT and TMS clinics.

SJHC – Concurrent Disorder Program at Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care

This clinical experience embeds the student in a practice focusing on care and management of adults with severe and persistent mental illness and substance use disorders using principles of Psycho Social Rehabilitation (PSR). Common clinical experiences include psychopharmacology in treatment resistant illness, rehabilitation of the persistently mentally ill, and the medico- legal aspects of providing care to people with chronic psychiatric disorders in an ambulatory care setting. Students will have an opportunity to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team and understand the principles of Motivational Interviewing and group therapy.