Curriculum Overhaul in Psychiatric Residency: An Innovative Approach to Revising the Didactic Lecture Series

Residents in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency, a midsize to large program with two primary teaching campuses, have a protected half-day during which the bulk of didactic material is taught. In addition to growing concerns about didactic content aligning with...

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Published inAcademic psychiatry Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 258 - 261
Main Authors Benson, Nicole M., Puckett, Judith A., Chaukos, Deanna C., Gerken, Adrienne T., Baker, Justin T., Smith, Felicia A., Beach, Scott R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Behavior modification
Career Planning
Case reports
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Committees
Conferences
Curricula
Curriculum Design
Didacticism
Educational Change
Feature: Educational Case Report
Feedback
Graduate Medical Education
Health care policy
Medical Education
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neurosciences
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Public speaking
Seminars
Teaching
Teams
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Summary:Residents in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency, a midsize to large program with two primary teaching campuses, have a protected half-day during which the bulk of didactic material is taught. In addition to growing concerns about didactic content aligning with impending milestones, program directors noted decreased attendance at didactics, mixed informal feedback regarding the value of specific talks, and apparent gaps in knowledge on Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Exam (PRITE) scores and in clinical practice. Aging/Dementia, Approach to the Patient, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Community Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison/Emergency Psychiatry, Healthcare Policy, Law and Psychiatry, Mood Disorders, Neuroscience, Personality Disorders, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, Psychotic Disorders, Quality and Safety, Research Literacy, Sociocultural Psychiatry, Substance Use Disorders, Teaching/Career Planning, and Trauma-Spectrum Disorders. [...]three major concerns regarding the old curriculum were identified that helped to guide this work of the committee, as described in Table 1.
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ISSN:1042-9670
1545-7230
DOI:10.1007/s40596-017-0717-1