Direct Supervision in Outpatient Psychiatric Graduate Medical Education.

Objective: The authors describe a stimulus case that led training staff to examine and revise the supervision policy of the adult and child and adolescent psychiatry clinics. To inform the revisions, the authors reviewed the literature and national policies.

Methods: The authors conducted a literature review in PubMed using the following criteria: Supervision, Residents, Training, Direct, and Indirect and a supplemental review in Academic Psychiatry.

A preliminary investigation of depression and kidney functioning in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Background: The incidence and prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is growing rapidly. Understanding the factors associated with declining renal function is of clinical significance. The current study's main goal was to identify variables that could predict decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) over time in outpatients with varying stages of CKD.