Somatic Disorders Clinic

4 hours per week for 12 months

Faculty includes: Gray Clarke, M.D.; Davin Quinn, M.D.

The Somatic Disorders Clinic is the primary outpatient psychosomatic consultation clinic for the UNM Psychiatric Center.

Fellows follow discharged inpatients they have consulted at UNMH into the outpatient setting via the Somatic Disorders Clinic. They also evaluate patients referred from outpatient primary care and medical specialty clinics at UNM HSC. Fellows have primary responsibility for assigning appointments to follow-up patients, contacting patients regarding results, medications, referrals, and other urgent matters. They also are responsible for communicating pertinent clinical issues to patients’ primary care providers and referral back to the patients’ medical homes for continued treatment if appropriate. Minimum average number of continuous care patients followed is five.

Goals of the rotation for fellows include developing expertise in:

management of complex psychosomatic patients in the outpatient setting
pathophysiology of psychiatric symptoms occurring with comorbid medical, surgical, neurological, or obstetric conditions, likely drug-drug interactions, psychological reactions common to these disorders, and social and cultural dimensions of these disorders that impact their presentations, treatment, and prognosis
psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and behavioral interventions for psychiatric symptoms or issues comorbid with medical, surgical, neurological, or obstetric conditions
communicating with clinicians, staff, and other consultants co-managing patients in the outpatient setting, including primary care physicians, specialists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, counselors, case managers, social workers, nurses, aides, and administrative staff

Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship

Somatic Disorders Clinic