Elements of an Excellent Psychiatry Clerkship Experience: A Survey Study of Graduating Medical Students.

Objective: One possible factor associated with choosing psychiatry as a career is students rating their psychiatry clerkship as excellent. Although this suggests that an excellent clerkship may improve recruitment into psychiatry, to our knowledge there has never been a multi-site survey study of graduating medical students that identify what factors lead to an excellent clerkship rating. The purpose of this study was to determine factors that medical student find important for an excellent psychiatry clerkship experience.

A Psychiatric-Specific Entrustable Professional Activity for the Evaluation of Prospective Psychiatric Residents: Towards a National Standard.

Introduction: Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) were developed as a way to ensure adequate skills of the medical school graduate. While the 12 EPAs apply to all medical specialties, EPA 1, "Gather a history and perform a physical examination," applies most explicitly to psychiatry through the performance of a mental status exam. Although proficiency in performing a psychiatric interview and mental status exam evolves throughout a psychiatrist's professional life, basic proficiency is essential in order to function as a psychiatry intern.

Faculty development effects on clerkship grades.

Background: Faculty member assessment of clerkship students' clinical performance has been noted as a consistently problematic issue within most medical student clerkships, and thus a worthy target of faculty development. One of the primary challenges in such faculty development is creating a change that improves the clinical assessment of students in a meaningful way.

Method: In the current study we evaluated the effects of a pair of brief interventions designed to facilitate greater use of the 'Not observed' option in faculty member assessments of clerkship students (as opposed to use of 'Meets expectations' for skills actually not observed by the rater) within a psychiatry rotation for third-year medical students in the USA.

Involuntary Processes: Knowledge Base of Health Care Professionals in a Tertiary Medical Center in Upstate South Carolina.

The involuntary hospitalization law provides a means by which love ones, caregivers and healthcare professionals can intervene when a mentally ill patient is a danger to self or others. Our study assessed the knowledge of professionals in one of the Greenville Health System (GHS) emergency department (ED) about the involuntary hospitalization process of mental health patients in South Carolina (SC). An eight item survey on the South Carolina involuntary hospitalization and commitment process was developed and distributed to GHS ED staff including: physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and technicians.