Agency Information
The Ohio Department of Mental Health Residency and Training Grant places trainees from psychology (OU campus), medicine (OU campus), and child psychiatry (The Cleveland Clinic) with faculty mentors from these three disciplines in a series of interactive interdisciplinary videoconferences for case-based discussion of pertinent evidence-based practices.

OU-COM students also attend two hours of observation in the Psychology and Social Work clinic.  There is a short reading assignment and a survey to complete prior to the first videoconference or experience.

CCE Sites:
Videoconferences - 2/27/2009 10 AM - noon  Grosvenor Hall 303
                              3/13/2009 10 AM - noon   Grosvenor Hall 303
                              4/3/2009   10 AM - noon  Grosvenor Hall 303

Observation - OU Psychology and Social Work Clinic - Porter Hall
                     See your CCE schedule for date and time

Phone:
740-593-1074

Contact Person:
Julie Owens, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Porter Hall 200
www.yessprogram.org

Special Notes:
Please call Dr. Owens before your experience to confirm your assignment. 

Office Hours:
Flexible

Specific CCE Goal:
Gain a better understanding of children’s mental health issues and the perspective of multiple disciplines involved in providing optimum care.

Objectives/Activities:
By participating in this assignment, medical students will be able to:

1. Review an article assigned by the preceptor on a specific children’s mental health issue.
2. Participate in a case-based videoconference and engage in dialogue with students in other disciplines that explores information from the article.
3. Observe patient care provided in an out-patient psychology clinic.
4. Discuss the observation experience with the child psychology preceptor.

Equipment Needed for Activity:
none

Dress: 
ID badge.  Please wear professional casual clothes, no blue jeans or tennis shoes and no white lab coat. 

Responsibilities of the medical student:

While on agency property, medical students will conform to all applicable policies and procedures of the agency.

Medical students will exercise confidentiality with regard to all patient and/staff information gained during the clinical experience.

Directions:
Porter Hall is across Richland Avenue from Grosvenor Hall; the Psychology and Social Work clinic is on the ground floor.