Peer Support Ambassadors: A Program to Advance a Supportive and Inclusive Clinical Learning Environment.

Peer support is beneficial to physicians in distress, but few institutions have created formal programs that train residents and fellows to effectively support their peers. Existing curricula also do not address the differential experience of residents from historically excluded groups, who are more likely to experience distressing mistreatment and discrimination in the clinical learning environment. The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Peer Support Ambassador (PSA) Program aimed to address this gap by: (1) offering peer support skills and trauma-informed care training to a diverse cohort of resident leaders representing a range of specialties, (2) deploying these leaders to support their peers, and (3) facilitating opportunities for participants to train other residents in these skills.

Electroconvulsive therapy use in the adult U.S. correctional setting: A case report and literature review.

Mr. C is a 45-year-old male inmate who was found in his cell unresponsive and mute. He had poor food and fluid intake for the last four days and was later found standing in place, frozen, and resistant to movement when encouraged by a corrections officer to rest in his bed.

Improving Mental Health Training for Primary Care Residents: A Resident-Led Educational Intervention.

Objective: Psychiatric training in family medicine residency programs is necessary but not always sufficient. A brief educational intervention was designed to help improve family medicine residents' knowledge, comfort, and attitudes in delivering mental health care.

Methods: A 6-hour didactic curriculum was taught by 2 psychiatry residents to family medicine residents between February and April 2015.

Time to sign: The relationship between health literacy and signature time.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between amount of time taken to sign one's name and health literacy.

Methods: A prospective, one time assessment was conducted on a convenience sample of 98 patients recruited in an inner-city outpatient internal medicine clinic. The amount of time required to sign (i.