Psychiatry Residency Directors' Attitudes Toward and Uses of the Medical Student Performance Evaluation and Other Potential Tools for Residency Selection.

Objective: A survey was conducted to determine US psychiatry residency directors' attitudes regarding current measures of medical student performance and their preferences for the future.

Methods: A team of psychiatry medical student educators and residency program directors developed a 23-question survey. In July 2021, links to the survey were sent out to all program directors registered with the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.

Expansion of telehealth curriculum: National survey of clinical education leaders.

Introduction: In response to the COVID pandemic and the rapid changes in delivery of and education on telehealth services, the Research Committee of the Alliance of Clinical Education (ACE) surveyed its multidisciplinary group of medical educators to determine how telehealth was being taught pre-COVID versus during-COVID.

Methods: An online survey was developed by the ACE Research Committee and sent via email to the ACE delegation. The objective of the survey was to determine changes in telehealth curriculum for medical students due to the rapid transition to telehealth, and the barriers for developing and delivering a telehealth curriculum.

Introducing Telepsychiatry to Medical Students with Simulated Patients: An Innovation by Necessity.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. : The abrupt discontinuation of medical student-patient contact due to the covid-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid change to virtual teaching.

The Facilitator Instrument for Team-Based Learning (FIT).

: We sought to evaluate the quality of Team-Based Learning facilitation in both large and small group settings. : Team Based Learning (TBL) is an increasingly popular small group instructional strategy in health science education. TBL facilitation skills are unique and differ from those needed to lecture or facilitate other types of small groups.

A Difficult Patient Encounter: Using a Standardized Patient Scenario to Teach Medical Students to Treat Medication-Seeking Patients.

Introduction: Substance dependence and the misuse of prescription narcotic medications have recently been a topic of increased national attention. Since this is both a difficult and increasingly important area for medical student training, we created an addition to our psychiatry clerkship curriculum to address this need using a standardized patient scenario.

Methods: Standardized patient scenarios are a useful instructional and assessment tool for providing medical students with exposure to specific clinical scenarios that could not be consistently and reliably encountered in clinical rotations.

The ADMSEP Milestones Project.

Objective: Credentialing bodies mandate that a medical school's curriculum be based upon recognized guidelines. Within the field of psychiatry, the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) has previously published recommended guidelines for the pre-clinical and clerkship curriculum. Ongoing changes within the Liaison Committee on Medical Education's requirements for medical school curricula, and the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition, necessitated review of these guidelines.

"I started to feel like a 'real doctor'": medical students' reflections on their psychiatry clerkship.

Objective: Medical students' reflective journals can be a rich source for understanding what students learn and think about during clinical rotations and can offer educators and mentors insight into students' professional identity formation. The aim of this paper is to ascertain, from reflective accounts, students' development and reactions to psychiatry following their psychiatry clerkship.

Method: The patterns, recurrent categories, and themes in 100 psychiatry clerks' reflective journals were analyzed using grounded theory.

Erythema multiforme vs. DRESS syndrome associated with the combined use of lamotrigine and cyclobenzaprine: a case report.

Lamotrigine is FDA-approved as a maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder, but its common off-label uses include bipolar depression and antidepressant augmentation in patients with major depressive disorder. Among other adverse effects, cutaneous reactions, particularly erythema multiforme, are cited as concerns during treatment with this medication. In order to minimize the risk of cutaneous side effect, efforts have been made to identify factors associated with a higher rate of lamotrigine-induced rash.

Potential for oxytocin use in children and adolescents with mental illness.

Background: Oxytocin, long known for its role in childbirth and breastfeeding, has recently come under investigation for its psychoactive properties. We investigated its potential for use in adolescent psychiatric populations for anxiety, depression, attachment disorders, and conduct disorder.

Methods: We conducted a thorough search of the literature using the Pubmed and Psychinfo databases and reviewed both the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from January 2000 until June 2010 and the new research abstracts from the 2009 and 2008 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry conferences.

Managing negative reactions in forensic trainees.

The treatment of adolescent offenders often provokes strong feelings in providers on the treatment team. These feelings, or countertransference reactions, can hinder effective patient care. However, with supervision and acknowledgment, these reactions can also be used effectively in becoming aware of the patient's internal state.