Improving Behavioral Healthcare Access Disparities by Training Providers in Disadvantaged Communities - Evidence of Strategy Effectiveness.

Background: Inadequate access to behavioral health services disproportionately impacts marginalized populations who live in disadvantaged areas. To reduce this gap, programs dedicated to optimizing behavioral health education and training must focus their efforts to enroll providers who practice in these disadvantaged areas.

Objective: The Train New Trainers (TNT) fellowship program aims to enhance behavioral health knowledge, skills, and attitudes of primary care providers (PCPs) who deliver care in disadvantaged communities.

Train New Trainers Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship-Optimizing Delivery of Behavioral Health Care Through Training for Primary Care Providers.

Objective: To expand and optimize the behavioral health workforce, it is necessary to improve primary care providers' (PCPs) overall knowledge and clinical skills in primary care-based psychiatry. Studies on the effects of postgraduate psychiatric education programs for PCPs on psychiatric knowledge are limited.

Methods: A total of 251 PCPs completed a 1-year fellowship.

An Effective COVID-19 Medical Student Elective.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of teaching medical students pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 related clinical knowledge. To fill the gap of COVID-19 instruction backed by evaluation data, we present a comprehensive COVID-19 pilot curriculum with multiple levels of evaluation data.

Methods: In the spring of 2020, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine piloted a two-week, primarily asynchronous COVID-19 elective course for medical students.

What Does Honors Mean? National Analysis of Medical School Clinical Clerkship Grading.

Objective: Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) letters provide critical comparative information about clerkship performance, and are a crucial part of the surgical residency application. The elimination of USMLE Step 1 numeric reporting increases the importance of transparency, standardization, and accessibility of comparative information reported on the MSPE. The objective of our study was to measure the variability in clerkship grade reporting on the MSPE from US medical schools, particularly focusing on the highest (honors) grades.

#MDsToo: A student mistreatment prevention curriculum for faculty members and residents.

Background: Medical student mistreatment has detrimental effects on student well-being and poses a patient safety risk, yet 40% of medical school graduates report being mistreated during their training. Unfortunately, this statistic has not changed significantly since 2013. The 'hidden curriculum' contributes to the pervasiveness of mistreatment in medical schools in the USA.

Impact of a teaching rotation on residents' attitudes toward teaching: a 5-year study.

Background: Residents play a tremendous role in educating medical students and other residents during their training. Many residency programs have thus instituted formal instruction on teaching. This 5-year study was conducted to quantitatively evaluate the impact of a teaching rotation on residents' attitudes towards teaching.