This document provides information on two courses: Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatry. The Behavioral Sciences course is a fourth year course that aims to explain biological, psychological, and social factors that influence human behavior. It covers topics like psychological development theories, higher mental functions, personality, and the doctor-patient relationship. The Psychiatry course is a fifth year course that aims to describe concepts of mental illness and classifications of disorders. It covers specific disorders like mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and others. Both courses involve lectures, exams, and references textbooks to assess student learning.

1. PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL SIENSCES
Course Title & Code: Behavioral Sciences (MEDBsc-42)
Grade: Fourth year / Second semester
Hours/week: Theory 1
Total Hours: Theory 15
Credits: 1
1. Learning objectives
1. The course is designed to enable the student to:
2. Explain biological, psychological, social factors that determine human
behavior
3. Describe theories of mind and psychological development according to
analytic, cognitive, learning and humanistic theories of mind
4. Explain higher mental functions such as perception, consciousness, memory,
learning, thinking and emotions
5. Describe individual variation in terms of personality and intelligence
6. Define Stress , explain coping ,and reaction to illness, dying and loss
7. Describe behavioral aspects of doctor patient relationship
8. gain the theoretical skills of thinking about and using the above mentioned
knowledge in doctor patient relationship
9. recognize key ethical and professional standards needed in doctor patient
relation in light of psychological theories about development, mental
functioning, intelligence and personality
2. Syllabus
No. Topics Hrs.
1
Introduction
- Define behavioral sciences
- Recognize significance of behavior sciences for doctor
- Recognize fields involved
- Describe determinants of behavior
1
2
Biological Determinants of behavior
- Describe Genetic, Anatomic, biochemical determinants of behavior
- Describe the role of limbic structures, neurotransmitters
- Classify main genetic studies, types of inheritance and define basic genetic
concepts like imprinting, gene expression, gene anticipation
1
3
Motivation
- Define motivation and instincts, motive, drive and desire.
- Describe ethology and instinct. Innate releasing mechanisms. Behavior of animal
in conflict situation.
- Recognize relationship between instincts man and culture.
- Explain emotions in relation to motivation and psychoanalytic theory of
neurosis
1
4
Psychological development I
- Describe Psychological development as determinant of behavior
- Describe Psychoanalytic theory of mind. Historical brief,
- Recognize topography of mind (conscious, unconscious, subconscious)
- Recognize structure of personality(ID,EGO AND SUPEREGO),
- Describe stages of development according to psychoanalytic theory.
1

2. 5
Defense mechanisms and Stress
- Define mental defense mechanisms
- Explain mental defense as stress coping technique and personality development
frame
1

3. - Describe psychotherapy, free association and hypnosis
- Recognize revisions of dynamic theory
6
Psychological development II
- Describe: learning theory of development of mind.
- Define Classical and operant conditioning and social conditioning.
- Explain role of deconditioning in behavior therapy
1
7
Psychological development III
- Describe cognitive theory of development of mind
- Explain cognitive stages, concrete and abstract thinking, important cognitive
concepts like object permanence, object conservation and play activity of
childhood.
- Recognize cognitive schemas as frame for personality
1
8
Psychological development IV
- Describe Erickson psychosocial stages of development.
- Recognize humanistic approach to development namely Maslow and Carl
Rogers theories
- Explain moral development
1
9
Higher mental functions I
- Define perception and explain perception through the deferent senses, how
mechanical or electromagnetic or chemical energy for example translated to
neurologically based percepts.
- Describe factors affecting perception
- Recognize abnormal perception
1
10
Higher mental functions II (Physiological consciousness & memory)
- Define and describe physiological consciousness
- Classify memory
- Describe memory types and mechanisms
1
11
Higher mental functions III ( thinking, learning, and intelligence)
- Define characteristic of thinking: symbols, concepts, abstract thinking and
problem solving
- Define learning and intelligence
- Describe intelligence quotient IQ, measurement of intelligence, intelligence
scales.
- Describe mental retardation and learning disability
1
12
Personality
- Define personality
- Describe clinical vs. dimensional approach to personality
- Recognize measures of personality, personality inventories
1
13
Social determinants of behavior
- Recognize small and large group effects on behavior
- Define key social behavioral concepts like sick role and illness behavior
1
14
Behavior while ill.
- Describe reaction to illness and behavioral changes upon disease
- Explain behaviors during illness
1
15
Doctor patient relationship.
- Apply behavioral sciences concepts on doctor patient relationship,
- Recognize models of doctor patient interaction
- Explain behavior of the difficult patient,
- Recognize transference and counter transference
- Recognize role of personality of patient in doctor patient relationship
1
Total 15
3. Instructional and Learning methods and tools
Lectures interactive presentation

4. 4. Student assessment:
The minimum requirement of a student to pass is to achieve at least 50% of the total
100 marks assigned for the course. The marks are distributed as follows:
1. Midterm exam of 25 marks: evaluating learned theoretical skills relevant to
objectives. The exam of one hour duration with 30 items best answer single
choice questions.
2. Quizzes of 5 marks: in the form of short essay questions from the same
presentation of the lecture. They are performed without notification and on
irregular bases throughout the course.
3. Final exam of 70 marks: evaluating learned skills according to the course
objectives. The exam of three hours duration with 50 items best answer single
choice questions and short essay questions.
Students who fail to attain the 50% cut-off mark are required to re-sit for a second
trial examination similar to the final one. Failing in the second trial entails the student
to repeat the academic year.
5. Books and references:
1. Kaplan USMLE part I Behavioral sciences
2. Board series / Behavioral Sciences

5. Course Title & Code: Psychiatry (MEDPsc-51)
Grade: Fifth year / First semester
Hours/week: Theory 2
Total Hours: Theory 30
Credits: 2
1. Learning objectives
The course is designed to enable the student to:
1. Describe the concept of mental illness, identify the prevalence of mental
disorders in community and in primary health care and recognize the
demographic characteristics of mental illness.
2. Describe psychiatric services in Iraq and developed countries
3. Explain the psychopathology
4. Describe classification of mental disorders ,how this concept evolved over one
century to the current concept of mental illness
5. Describe and explain psychiatric disorders that are commonly presented at
casualty unit, primary health care and psychiatric in and outpatient units with
focus on stress, psychological trauma and common mental illness presented to
other fields of medicine especially the primary health care services
6. Help students gain theoretical skill of thinking about and using of knowledge
in clinical settings for diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
7. Recognize key professional and ethical issues in psychiatry practical settings.
2. Syllabus
No. Topics Hrs.
1
Introduction
Describe in brief history of psychiatry and development of psychiatric services in
Iraq and developed countries. Recognize epidemiology and the general
demographic characteristics of mental illness
1
2
Psychopathology
Describe psychopathological phenomena in appearance and behavior. Recognize
disorders of speech. Psychopathology of thinking. Disorders of thought form and
content. Formal thought disorders, flight of ideas and content disorders: delusions
and obsessions and preoccupations. Disorders of mood such as sadness anxiety and
apathy. Disorders of perception and define illusions and hallucinations. Disorders of
cognitive functions. Define attention, concentration, memory, intelligence and
judgment. Describe disorders of experience of self. Define
derealization, depersonalization, thought alienation and passivity. Define insight.
4
3
Mental illness
Classification. Concept of mental illness and its development from old
classifications to international classification of disease 10th
revision (ICD 10) and
diagnostic and statistical manual 4th
and fifth revisions (DSM IV and V) and the
current classifications used for mental illness
1
4
Anxiety disorders:
Define. Classify (Generalized, panic disorder, phobias). Epidemiology, etiology,
clinical picture of each disorder. Lines of treatment of each disorder.
1
5
Mood disorders
Major depression
Definition. Epidemiology. Presentation, etiology, and diagnosis of major
depression. Recognize monoamine theory of depression. Major depression
management. Antidepressant classification, action, and side effects. Recognize
role of ECT and role of psychotherapy.
3

6. Bipolar disorders
Definition. Prevalence, types, presentation etiology, diagnosis, and management.
Classify mood stabilizers, their kinetics, actions and risks.
6
Stress
Definition. Coping strategies and defense mechanisms. Post traumatic stress
disorders (PTSD) Prevalence, etiology, clinical features diagnosis and
management.
1
7
Schizophrenia
Definition, epidemiology, presentation, etiology, and dopamine theory of
schizophrenia. Management lines, antipsychotics, ECT, and rehabilitation,
community vs. institutional care.
2
8
Somatic disorders
Definition. Prevalence, presentation, diagnoses, lines of management and the role
of cooperation with other medical fields.
1
9
Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders
Definition. Describe history of hysteria. Prevalence, presentation, criteria of
diagnosis and management lines role of drugs, psychotherapy, and hypnosis.
1
10
Adjustment reaction
Define adjustment disorders. Describe reaction to physical disease, acute, chronic
and terminal illness. Define grief and bereavement. Recognize pathological grief
and its treatment.
1
11
Neurocognitive mental disorders
Define delirium. Presentation, etiology and management.
Define and classify dementia. Prevalence, diagnosis and management.
1
12
Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD
Define OCD. Prevalence, presentation, etiology, diagnoses, and treatment role by
drugs like clomipramine, SSRIs and behavior therapy.
Define and describe presentation of Impulse dyscontrol, trichotillomania and
dysmorphophobia.
1
13
Substance abuse and addictive disorders
Define: Abuse, tolerance, dependence (psychological vs. physiological), withdrawal
phenomenon. Define alcoholism. Describe criteria of alcoholism, complications,
investigations and management.
Recognize addictive properties of benzodiazepines, narcotics, CNS stimulants,
marijuana, hallucinogens, solvents, anticholinergics.
Describe tendency for abuse or dependence physiological or psychological,
withdrawal symptoms and management for each substance
2
14
Eating and sleep disorders
Define anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Describe key features, etiology and
management. Classify and define sleep disorders. Describe key presenting features
and lines of management of sleep disorders.
1
15
Puerperal psychiatric disorders
Define puerperal psychosis, postpartum depression and maternity blues. Describe
key features and management.
Describe premenstrual dysphoric disorder; presentation and management.
1
16
Sexual disorders
Classify sexual disorders. Describe sexual dysfunction in light of sex stimulation
response cycle. Recognize role Behavior sex therapy
1
17
Emergency psychiatric disorders
Suicide assess of risk, recognize prevention. Describe parasuicide and its
management. Revise other emergencies like delirium, conversion and panic at
casualty setting.
1
18
Personality disorders
Classify personality disorders (clinical vs. dimensional). Describe presentation,
diagnosis and management.
1
19
Physical treatments
Classify and subclassify psychotropic medications. Describe indications, actions,
kinetics, side effects and dosage for each class.
1

7. 20
Child psychiatry
Classify childhood mental disorders. Classify learning disability. Describe
diagnosis and management of learning disability. Define school refusal vs. truancy.
Define enuresis, presentation, causes and management.
Define attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, key features, causes, and
management. Define conduct disorder, key features, causes, and management
Define autism, key features, causes and management.
2
21
Psychotherapy
Define psychotherapy. Classify psychotherapy.
Describe, supportive therapy, Counseling, behavior therapy.
Describe cognitive behavior therapy CBT and its uses.
Describe psychodynamic (psychoanalytic) therapy
Recognize uses of analytic therapy
2
Total 30
3. Instructional and Learning methods and tools
The course is given as large group interactive lectures.
4. Student assessment:
The minimum requirement of a student to pass is to achieve at least 50% of the
total100 marks assigned for the course. The marks are distributed as follows:
1. Midterm exam (25 marks): to evaluate the learned theoretical knowledge
andskills in the form of 30 items best answer MCQ.
2. Daily short essay quizzes (5 marks) without previous notification and on
irregular bases.
3. Final term exam (70 marks) evaluating the learned skills according to the
objectives of 50 item best answer MCQ and 20 short answer questions.
Students who fail to attain the 50% cut-off mark are required to re-sit for a
secondtrial examination similar to the final one. Failing in the second trial entails the
student to repeat the academic year.
5. Books and references:
1. Oxford short text of psychiatry
2. Davidson's clinical practice of medicine.
Course Title & Code: Clinical Psychiatry (MEDPsc-5C)
Grade: Fifth year / Clinical
Hours/week: Theory
15 Total Hours:
Theory 45 Credits:
1.5
1. Learning objectives

8. The course is designed to enable the student to:
2. Describe and evaluate psychiatric services in Iraq in comparison to
developedcountries
3. Develop skill to do the psychiatric interview with patients
4. Collect symptoms and eliciting of signs of common mental disorders
5. Synthesize clinical differential diagnosis and plan management
2. Syllabus
No. Topics Hours
1
Describe theoretical back ground of psychiatric interview
Interview with patients in front of students
15
2
Students do the interview in front of lecturer then by themselves
alone with patients.
15
3
Students perform interview with patients then long case discussion
with lecturer. Oral final exam done on last day
15
Total 45
3. Instructional and Learning methods and tools
The subject is given through small-group teaching, problem-based or case-
based learning, bed-side teaching, and clinical demonstrations. The course is
repeated over nine groups all over the academic year each group receive three
weeks of daily training over 5 days a week each training day include three
hours of clinical training. Each group has 10-15 students.
4. Student assessment:
The minimum requirement of a student to pass is to achieve at least 50%
of thetotal 100 marks assigned for the course. The marks are distributed as
follows:
1. Daily attendance of clinical sessions (5 marks).
2. Review students reading skill interview of studied clinical cases (5 marks).
3. Evaluate capacity of attention and acquisition of new skills (5 marks).
4. Midterm written exam evaluating capacity of recognizing symptoms and
signs,theoretical knowledge and management skills (25 marks).
5. Oral final clinical exam evaluating capacity for history collection and
elicitingsigns, building differential diagnosis and planning management (60
marks). Students who fail to attain the 50% cut-off mark are required to re-
sit for a secondtrial examination similar to the final one. Failing in the
second trial entails thestudent to repeat the academic year.
5. Books and references:
1. Davidson's clinical practice of medicine: chapter on psychiatry
2. Oxford short text of psychiatry.