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2 • In addition, all students attend general orientations and tours plus various presentations and training on the KUSM-Wichita campus. Topics may include psychiatry medications, psychosomatic medicine, child development, ADHD, psychiatry emergencies, eating disorders, electroconvulsive therapy, patient interviewing or issues in medicine. • They also attend a Grand Rounds hosted by the department in which a speaker is brought in for a particular topic. • Third-year medical students spend two weeks each in two of four inpatient service lines: adult, adolescent, geriatric or consult/liaison. These assignments occur at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph. Four weeks of psychiatry clerkship training for third-year medical students "Renee Higgins" refused to make eye contact as she nervously took deep breaths and punched a fist into her open hand. During the visit, O'Connor would learn Higgins, an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, who has done two tours in Iraq, was brought to the emergency room by her friend and fellow soldier, Joan, after Higgins' husband had called Joan saying he was worried for his wife's safety. She'd left a worrisome message, apologizing for being a bad mother to their 2-year-old daughter the night before, and over the past three months, since the death of Higgins' sister, she'd become angrier, withdrawn and was drinking more alcohol. It had gotten to the point that her husband and daughter had moved out. it's important that other physicians and specialists besides psychiatrists are trained to help patients deal with the symptoms and conditions. "Simply telling a healthy person, 'You have high blood pressure,' increases their risk of depression by 400%," said Rick Kellerman, M.D., who oversees family medicine education for medical students and the family medicine residency programs at KUSM-Wichita. "For anybody who has a chronic illness, the relationship with depression and anxiety is high." Asking questions When third-year medical student Michaela O'Connor entered the exam room, her 28-year-old patient At the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, medical students do rotations in psychiatry, and mental health professionals are embedded within the family medicine residency programs as part of patient care teams. And in addition to having an accredited psychiatry residency program, the KUSM-Wichita Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences also provides clinical training for psychology interns and postdoctoral psychology fellows, noted department chair Rachel Brown, MBBS, MPhil. Since there's no one cause for mental illness and several factors, including other medical diagnoses that can contribute to one's risk for mental illness, Combining care in medical education When it comes to identifying and treating mental health conditions in patients, it's all hands on deck.