Control Work (CW)
Description of a
Clinical Case
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Group leader:
Write by email and indicate your group and how many students are
actually studying in your group (send me the group list).
We will send you articles (Clinical Case) that need to be:
1) distributed among the students, these articles need to
2) be printed,
3) read=studied and
4) an Control Work (CC) done on them.
DEADLINE
The DEADLINE
for your control work (CW)
is the last day of classes (of this cycle)
If you don't have CW, you take a test (you
get 0 in the rating=average rating, you
won't get a good grade on the exam)
Description of a clinical case
• PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS
• Case Reports in Medical Education and Clinical Practice:
• Aleksandra G. Florek and Robert P. Dellavalle Case reports in medical
education: a platform for training medical students, residents, and fellows in
scientific writing and critical thinking // Journal of Medical Case Reports (2016)
10:86 DOI 10.1186/s13256-016-0851-5
• T. Nissen and R. Wynn The clinical case report: a review of its merits and
limitations // BMC Research Notes (2014), 7:264
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Key questions to answer in a
clinical case
• What is this MENTAL DISORDER?
• Why do you think so? List (write) the main signs and symptoms of
MENTAL DISORDER?
• What treatment options are avaible? Specify the group of
psychotropic drugs and some drugs from the group. Why did you
choose this group of funds?
What is this MENTAL DISORDER?
• Syndrome, ICD-10 or ICD-11. See lesson plan (exam questions)
• Dementia (forms=subtypes, causes, levels)
• Psychosis (subtypes, course, causes)
• Delusional disorder: types (Paranoia), themes (Persecutory delusion,
Grandiose delusions, Hypochondriasis).
• Schizophrenia: subtypes, course
• Alcohol, opioids, etc. drug Craving (withdrawal) syndrome. Alcohol-
related dementia. Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
• Suicide attempt
Why do you think so? List (write) the main signs and
symptoms of MENTAL DISORDER?
List the main signs and symptoms of MD
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS PRESENT ABSENT
Described in case report Not in description of this CR,
but it happens in this MD
Differential Diagnosis
SIGNS MENTAL DISORDER 1 MENTAL DISORDER 2
Specify the group of
psychotropic drugs and some
drugs from the group
• Antipsychotics (typical or atypical antipsychotics=neuroleptics), drugs (definition,
indications and contraindications, side effects).
• Antidepressants, drugs (definition, indications and contraindications, side effects).
• Anxiolytics, drugs (definition indications and contraindications, side effects).
• Mood stabilizers, drugs (definition indications and contraindications, side effects).
• Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, drugs (definition indications and contraindications,
side effects).
• NMDA receptor antagonist, drugs (definition indications and contraindications,
side effects).
• Electroconvulsive therapy: indications and contraindications, side effects.
The side effects reportedly associated with
Basic medicine (treatment)
Basic medicine Adverse effects = SIDE EFFECTS
(psychotropic drugs)
Somatic Neurological Mental
Risperidone, Olanzapine Sexual side effects Extrapyramidal symptoms Drug-induced OCD
Diabetes, Tardive dyskinesia Depression (mania),
Significant weight gain Disturbances of
consciousness (delirium)
Why did you choose this group of funds?
• Write a few sentences about why you chose this particular treatment
• Efficacy in the treatment of …
The article must be printed and
the CW completed within the
specified time frame.
• What is this MENTAL DISORDER?
• Why do you think so? List (write) the main signs and symptoms of
MENTAL DISORDER? 2 tables (list of symptoms, differential
diagnosis)
• What treatment options are avaible? Specify the group of
psychotropic drugs and some drugs from the group. Why did you
choose this group of funds? 1 table (side effects)
• The DEADLINE for your control work (CW) is the last
day of classes (of this cycle)