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Subjects, Skills, and Requirements in the DHA Psychiatry Exam

Subjects, Skills, and Requirements in the DHA Psychiatry Exam

1. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Knowledge to Review: Study psychiatric conditions affecting children and adolescents, including neurodevelopmental disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, behavioral disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and childhood psychosis. Review developmental milestones, family influences, school-related difficulties, and age-specific psychiatric presentations.

Clinical Skills to Review: Understand developmentally appropriate psychiatric assessment, recognize symptoms requiring specialist evaluation, and review the interpretation of information from children, caregivers, and schools. Study age-appropriate treatment planning, psychosocial interventions, medication considerations, and assessment of self-harm or safeguarding concerns.

2. Public Psychiatry / Geriatric Psychiatry

Knowledge to Review: Review community mental health, psychiatric rehabilitation, public mental health principles, mental illness prevention, and access to psychiatric services. Study psychiatric disorders in older adults, including dementia-related behavioral symptoms, late-life depression, delirium, cognitive impairment, and medication-related psychiatric complications.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize mental health needs at population and community levels, understand continuity of care, and identify relevant social and functional risk factors. Review cognitive assessment, evaluation of mental capacity, differentiation of delirium from dementia, and psychiatric management considerations in older adults.

3. Emergency Psychiatry

Knowledge to Review: Study acute psychiatric emergencies, including suicidal behavior, severe agitation, acute psychosis, mania, substance intoxication and withdrawal, and psychiatric presentations associated with medical illness. Review emergency assessment, risk evaluation, de-escalation, and principles of crisis management.

Clinical Skills to Review: Identify immediate safety risks, conduct suicide and violence risk assessments, recognize medical causes of behavioral changes, and determine when urgent medical stabilization is needed. Understand emergency psychiatric interventions, observation, safe patient management, and appropriate referral or admission decisions.

4. Anxiety Disorders / Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders / Trauma and Stress Related Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Review generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and stress-related psychiatric conditions. Study clinical presentations, diagnostic features, common comorbidities, and psychological and pharmacological treatment principles.

Clinical Skills to Review: Differentiate anxiety-related presentations, recognize obsessions and compulsions, assess trauma-related symptoms, and identify relevant differential diagnoses. Review treatment selection, including cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure-based approaches, and appropriate medication strategies, as well as monitoring treatment response.

5. Depressive Disorders / Bipolar and Related Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Study major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II disorders, manic and hypomanic episodes, and mood symptoms associated with medical conditions or substance use. Review diagnostic criteria, episode characteristics, suicide risk, mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and long-term treatment considerations.

Clinical Skills to Review: Differentiate depressive, manic, hypomanic, and mixed clinical presentations. Understand mood disorder assessment, suicide risk evaluation, appropriate medication selection, monitoring of adverse effects, and prevention of relapse. Review situations where antidepressant treatment requires particular caution because of possible bipolar disorder.

6. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Review schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, and psychosis associated with mood disorders, substance use, or medical illness. Study positive and negative symptoms, cognitive impairment, antipsychotic medications, and the principles of long-term psychiatric care.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and negative symptoms. Review differential diagnosis of psychotic conditions, assessment of functional impairment, selection and monitoring of antipsychotic treatment, and management of treatment-related adverse effects. Understand the importance of adherence, relapse prevention, and psychosocial rehabilitation.

7. Substance‐Related and Addictive Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Study substance use disorders involving alcohol, opioids, sedatives, stimulants, cannabis, and other psychoactive substances. Review intoxication, withdrawal syndromes, dependence, tolerance, addictive behaviors, and psychiatric complications of substance use. Study principles of detoxification and long-term addiction treatment.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize clinical signs of intoxication and withdrawal, evaluate substance-related risks, and understand appropriate assessment and management principles. Review treatment approaches, relapse prevention, motivational interviewing, medication-assisted treatment where applicable, and management of coexisting psychiatric disorders.

8. Personality Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Review major personality disorder presentations, including borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, avoidant, obsessive-compulsive personality, and other personality-related conditions. Study enduring patterns of cognition, emotional regulation, interpersonal functioning, and behavioral responses associated with personality disorders.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize maladaptive personality patterns, evaluate functional impairment, and differentiate personality disorders from episodic psychiatric conditions. Review assessment of self-harm and impulsivity, therapeutic boundaries, risk management, and psychotherapeutic treatment principles, including dialectical behavior therapy.

9. Psychosomatic Medicine (Consultation‐ Liaison Psychiatry) / Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Knowledge to Review: Study the relationship between physical illness and psychiatric symptoms, including psychological responses to medical conditions, somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, functional neurological symptom disorder, and other related presentations. Review psychiatric consultation in medical and surgical settings, delirium, medication-related mental status changes, and medically associated psychiatric conditions.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize psychiatric symptoms in medically ill patients, differentiate psychiatric conditions from medical or medication-related causes, and understand consultation-liaison assessment. Review communication with multidisciplinary teams, evaluation of decision-making capacity, assessment of somatic symptoms, and coordinated management of complex medical and psychiatric presentations.

10. Psychotherapy / Psychosocial Interventions

Knowledge to Review: Review major psychotherapy approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy, supportive psychotherapy, interpersonal therapy, psychodynamic concepts, family interventions, and group therapy. Study therapeutic alliance, behavioral interventions, psychoeducation, relapse prevention, and psychosocial rehabilitation.

Clinical Skills to Review: Understand the indications for different psychotherapeutic approaches, recognize patient suitability, and review basic treatment planning principles. Study therapeutic communication, shared decision-making, appropriate professional boundaries, family involvement, and integration of psychosocial interventions with medication and other psychiatric treatments.

11. Basic Psychopharmacology / Physical Therapy (ECT and others)

Knowledge to Review: Study the pharmacological management of psychiatric conditions, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, and other psychotropic medications. Review mechanisms of action, drug interactions, contraindications, adverse effects, therapeutic monitoring, and medication safety. Study electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), its general indications, precautions, and relevant treatment considerations.

Clinical Skills to Review: Interpret psychiatric medication profiles, understand treatment selection principles, recognize important adverse reactions, and review appropriate medication monitoring. Understand when ECT may be considered, the importance of pre-treatment assessment, informed consent, anesthesia-related precautions, and recognition of potential treatment complications.

12. Forensic Psychiatry

Knowledge to Review: Review interactions between psychiatry and the legal system, including mental capacity, criminal responsibility concepts, competency-related evaluations, violence risk assessment, and legal aspects of psychiatric care. Study principles of forensic psychiatric assessment, clinical documentation, confidentiality, and professional responsibilities.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize ethical and legal issues in psychiatric practice, understand structured clinical risk assessment principles, and differentiate therapeutic from forensic professional roles. Review accurate documentation, objective reporting, assessment of mental capacity, and the importance of applying relevant legal and regulatory requirements in clinical scenarios.

13. Patient Safety & Professionalism and Ethics

Knowledge to Review: Study patient safety, suicide prevention, violence risk management, safe prescribing, medication error prevention, clinical confidentiality, informed consent, professional accountability, and ethical psychiatric care. Review safeguarding, patient autonomy, decision-making capacity, appropriate use of restrictive interventions, and protection of vulnerable patients.

Clinical Skills to Review: Recognize patient safety risks, evaluate ethical dilemmas, understand appropriate escalation procedures, and apply professional judgment to psychiatric scenarios. Review safe patient communication, documentation, risk management, medication monitoring, respect for patient rights, and the ethical and legal considerations associated with psychiatric treatment.

Official DHA Exam Information: The DHA Healthcare Professional Licensing Assessment Guideline lists this examination as Specialist Psychiatry under the Physicians category. The examination contains 150 questions, has a 3-hour duration, requires a 65% passing score, uses exam code PSY5961, and has a listed fee of USD 280.