An intensive six-week rotation in psychiatry actively involves the student in a variety of psychiatric services. Students are assigned to two three-week sites for their primary clerkship experiences.
These sites include inpatient psychiatry, consultation/liaison psychiatry, community health care and emergency psychiatry in a variety of hospital settings, including Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern University Hospitals, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. These primary clerkship experiences are supplemented by part-time experiences in outpatient psychiatry and emergency psychiatry.

Students also are able to see clinical care unique to psychiatry, such as electroconvulsive therapy. In addition to diverse clinical exposure, students also spend one half-day a week in didactic teaching sessions focusing on the diagnosis and biopsychosocial treatment of psychiatric disorders and have the opportunity to access interactive computer-based psychiatric cases. Students attend weekly departmental Grand Rounds and participate in teaching conferences on their primary service site.

The junior surgical clerkship is designed to introduce students to the theoretical and practical aspects of surgical patient care. Emphasis is placed on the underlying pathophysiology rather than technical aspects. Students are fully involved in the daily care of surgical patients and participate in diagnostic and therapeutic decision making. This eight-week experience includes didactic teaching sessions as well as small-group interactions with full-time faculty.