A 2-year progress report of the AACAP-Harvard Macy Teaching Scholars Program.

Objective: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has partnered with the Harvard Macy Program for Healthcare Educators so that selected child and adolescent psychiatry academic faculty might enhance their teaching expertise in order to possibly enhance recruitment of medical students into child and adolescent psychiatry.

Methods: Thirteen child psychiatry faculty have graduated from the AACAP-Harvard Macy Teaching Scholars Program (HMTSP). There are 10 additional child and adolescent psychiatry faculty members in the process of completing the program.

Helping medical students understand postpartum psychosis through the prism of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Objective: We assessed the use of literature to illustrate a postpartum depression lecture.

Methods: Medical students and faculty facilitators were surveyed after small group discussions.

Results: Students' ratings and comments were positive, and faculty comments were neutral to positive.