Competency Committees in Undergraduate Medical Education: Approaching Tensions Using a Polarity Management Framework.

Implementing competency-based medical education in undergraduate medical education (UME) poses similar and unique challenges to doing so in graduate medical education (GME). To ensure that all medical students achieve competency, educators must make certain that the structures and processes to assess that competency are systematic and rigorous. In GME, one such key structure is the clinical competency committee.

Medical education teaching resources.

Objective: Numerous monographs on psychiatry education have appeared without a review specifically intended to assist psychiatry faculty and trainees in the selection of appropriate volumes for study and reference. The authors prepared this annotated bibliography to fill that gap.

Methods: The authors identified titles from web-based searches of the topics "academic psychiatry," "psychiatry education," and "medical education," followed by additional searches of the same topics on the websites of major publishers.

Trainees as teachers in team-based learning.

Objective: Team-based learning is an active learning modality that is gaining popularity in medical education. The authors studied the effect of using trainees as facilitators of team-based learning sessions.

Methods: Team-based learning modules were developed and implemented by faculty members and trainees for the third-year medical student clerkship in psychiatry in the 2007-2008 academic year.

Mental health services for residents: more important than ever.

The mental health of physicians in training is a topic of considerable concern. Recent attention to the issue of patient safety has led to examination of the relationship between residents' stress and compromised clinical performance. Few mental health programs dedicated to residents and formally structured to meet their specific needs are reported in the literature.

Enhanced ambulatory experience for the clerkship: curriculum innovation at the University of Michigan.

An innovative ambulatory experience was added to the third-year psychiatry clerkship at the University of Michigan in July 1998. The new program was developed to increase ambulatory time to one day per week and to enhance the educational experience. Students actively participated in evaluation of new patients, conducted group interviews of simulated patients, and observed patients' return visits at the outpatient clinic.