Teaching and training at the Clínic

Teaching and training in the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit at the Hospital Clínic is aimed at the optimal transfer of knowledge about Affective Disorders and other related disorders, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with specialised training (MIR, PIR, EIR) and continuing university and non-university training, following rigorous training criteria of the highest quality at all levels. The Unit also collaborates in both theoretical and practical teaching in the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Bachelor's Degrees.

The Unit participates in and/or coordinates part of the training for students in the Medicine Bachelor's Degree:

• Psychiatry (4th year)
• Optional Psychiatric Therapeutics (4th year)
• General Semiology and Clinical Propaedeutics Medical Ethics (3rd year)
• Optional Translational Medicine (3rd year)
• Medical Psychology (2nd year)
• Summer Internship (4th year)
• Clinical Hospital Internships (6th year)

The Unit is part of the following national and international master's programmes:

• Master's in Neuroscience Interuniversity Master's
• Interuniversity Master's in Introduction to Mental Health Research
• Master's in General Health Psychology Intervention in Neuropsychology
• Master's in Clinical Research within the Systems Medicine module
• Master's in Translational Medicine - MSc

The Unit participates in Residents Training: MIR in Psychiatry, PIR in Psychology, EIR in Nursing; and other specialities (Child Psychiatry, Neurology, Family and Community Medicine, Anaesthesiology and Pharmacology, for example).

• Training placements in the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit, especially for residents from other national centres. 
• Research placements in the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit, especially for residents from international centres. 
• Advanced training courses in Bipolar Disorders (in close collaboration with Aula Clínic), aimed at Psychiatric specialists; offering specific training in the assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic management of Bipolar Disorders. 

In recent years, the Unit has organised the Workshop on Clinical Research Methods (ECNP), 23 doctoral theses have been supervised and 40 books on bipolar and depressive disorders have been written. 

The Unit has also authored Clinical Guidelines for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder at the international level (World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Guidelines, International Society for Bipolar Disorders Guidelines and Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments); national level (Clinical Guidelines for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in the National Health System); and Catalonia Government (Generalitat) level (Guide on the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Catalonia and the Guide to Major Depression in Catalonia).