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Time Is Now for Addressing Racism in Medical Education
As APA leaders continue to work toeliminate systemic racism within psychiatry, a group of psychiatry resident leaders recognized with APA/APA Foundation Minority Fellowshipsdescribed an action plan they believe will reduce racism in medical education in the most recent issue ofPsychiatric News.“Many health care institutions and medical schools, including the AMA, have released statements condemning police brutality and racism. However, such statements ring hollow without action,” the APA/APAF Minority Fellows wrote. “We believe that one of the first steps in combating systemic racis m in the medical field is addressi...
Source: Psychiatr News - August 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: APA/APA Foundation Minority Fellows diversity graduate medical education health disparities mentorship Psychiatric News racism research scholarship standardized testing Source Type: research

Advancements in Undergraduate Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges of an Evolving World of Education, Healthcare, and Technology
This article aims to provide a summary of recent changes within UGME. Within the article, changes in both the pre-clerkship (1st and 2nd years) and clinical years (3rd and 4th) will be discussed. Finally, this review will attempt to clarify new terminology and concepts such as the recently released Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). The goal of these UGME changes, as with Flexner ’s reform, is to ensure future physicians are better prepared for patient care.
Source: Psychiatric Quarterly - November 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

51.8 medical education in the time of covid-19: a literature review on e-learning
During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical schools have had to reassess their teaching capabilities. Blended learning, a teaching modality that emphasizes self-study using online modules combined with in-person lectures, has been gaining in popularity over the past several years due to its convenience and effectiveness. However, social distancing makes in-person time impractical, and fully online courses have become necessary. This literature review assesses the effectiveness of e-learning as well as the perceived satisfaction of students who take online courses in lieu of traditional in-person medical education.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alicia S. Wu, Muhammad Zeshan Source Type: research

Use of informatics technology in psychiatry.
This article offers a brief description of the uses of information technology in psychiatry. In particular, e-mail is one of the most popular Internet services and there is internationally an increasing pressure from the public to be able to contact their doctor by e-mail. Furthermore, almost all psychiatric journals now have a digital electronic edition, thus increasing the volume of articles published, the ease of accessing the required information, and ultimately the reduction of the time it takes a psychiatrist to come to possess a specialized field of knowledge. The Internet also enables psychiatrists, while being at ...
Source: Psychiatriki - December 2, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatriki Source Type: research

Suicide prevention competencies among urban Indian physicians: A needs assessment.
CONCLUSIONS: There is a dire need for medical schools to incorporate suicide prevention training as a core component in their medical curricula and for continuing medical education training programs for physicians to enhance competencies in early detection and management of suicidal behavior. PMID: 26816429 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Indian Journal of Psychiatry - January 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Indian J Psychiatry Source Type: research

The role of trainees as clinical teachers of medical students in psychiatry.
CONCLUSION: The role that trainees play as clinical teachers should be acknowledged and supported. Further development of research and scholarship in medical education is needed to determine how best to teach trainees to teach. PMID: 23873897 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australasian Psychiatry - July 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hickie C, Nash L, Kelly B Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research

Geriatric Psychiatry in the Psychiatry Clerkship: a Survey of Current Education Practices.
CONCLUSIONS: Current practices in some clerkships are inadequate to prepare medical students to care for older patients with psychiatric symptoms. PMID: 25749923 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training - March 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Acad Psychiatry Source Type: research

BASH: badmouthing, attitudes and stigmatisation in healthcare as experienced by medical students Education & training
Aims and method We used an online questionnaire to investigate medical students' perceptions of the apparent hierarchy between specialties, whether they have witnessed disparaging comments (‘badmouthing’ or ‘bashing’) against other specialists and whether this has had an effect on their career choice. Results In total, 960 students from 13 medical schools completed the questionnaire; they ranked medical specialties according to the level of badmouthing and answered questions on their experience of specialty bashing. Psychiatry and general practice attracted the greatest number of negative comments, ...
Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ajaz, A., David, R., Brown, D., Smuk, M., Korszun, A. Tags: Education & amp; training Source Type: research

Geriatric Psychiatry in the Psychiatry Clerkship: a Survey of Current Education Practices
Conclusions Current practices in some clerkships are inadequate to prepare medical students to care for older patients with psychiatric symptoms.
Source: Academic Psychiatry - March 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

APA Speaks Out Against Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in Higher Education
In astatement today, APA said that the U.S. Supreme Court ’s ruling inStudents for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeandStudents for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina will “undermine the ability of colleges, universities, and medical schools to build a workforce of health care professionals that can effectively treat the increasingly diverse body of patients they serve.”In the case, theSupreme Court ruled 6-3that the admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) that relied in part on racial considerations violate the Constitution ’s guarantee of eq...
Source: Psychiatr News - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: AAMC affirmative action cultural sensitivity Harvard College health inequities race-conscious admissions Supreme Court University of North Carolina Source Type: research

Psychiatry residency selection criteria for american and foreign medical graduates : a comparative study.
Authors: Rao NR, Meinzer AE, Primavera LH, Augustine A Abstract A survey of training directors in psychiatry was conducted to explore criterion areas in foreign medical graduate selection by comparing the perceived importance of 11 selection criteria between American medical graduates (AMGs) and foreign medical graduates (FMGs). Our study found that training directors use much the same criteria for evaluating FMGs as AMGs. For both groups, great emphasis was placed on personality factors, psychological mindedness, ability to communicate, and performance in the interview. Referrals by faculty received equal importan...
Source: The Journal of American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training - January 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Acad Psychiatry Source Type: research

Supreme Court holds hearing on education standards for children with disabilities
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Jan. 11 heard oral arguments on a potentially groundbreaking case that could determine what level of educational benefit schools are required by federal law to provide to children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update - January 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Education Source Type: research

Medical student psychiatric educators' perceptions of supports, resources, and rewards.
CONCLUSIONS: There are opportunities for improvement in provision of teaching resources, mentoring for medical student educators, greater protected time for teaching and administration, and rewards (salary and non-monetary) for educators. If actualized, these improvements would promote optimization of medical student education in psychiatry. PMID: 24913098 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Journal of American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training - June 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Acad Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Time is Now: Improving Substance Abuse Training in Medical Schools
Abstract This commentary highlights the growing demand for substance abuse prevention and treatment, summarizes the literature regarding the current insufficiencies in substance abuse training in medical schools, and suggests strategies to address this gap in physician education. The authors describe how the combination of mandated coverage for substance abuse services and expanding treatment needs means that more physicians, regardless of their patient populations, will be faced with addressing the problem of substance use. The authors review the literature on substance abuse training in medical schools, which in...
Source: Academic Psychiatry - March 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Time is Now: Improving Substance Abuse Training in Medical Schools.
Authors: Ram A, Chisolm MS Abstract This commentary highlights the growing demand for substance abuse prevention and treatment, summarizes the literature regarding the current insufficiencies in substance abuse training in medical schools, and suggests strategies to address this gap in physician education. The authors describe how the combination of mandated coverage for substance abuse services and expanding treatment needs means that more physicians, regardless of their patient populations, will be faced with addressing the problem of substance use. The authors review the literature on substance abuse training in...
Source: The Journal of American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training - March 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Acad Psychiatry Source Type: research