A survey of United States general psychiatry residency programs : Program characteristics and relationship to the 1994 national residency matching program results

• Published in: Psychiatric quarterly Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 167 - 185
• Main Authors: CATALANO, G, CATALANO, M. C, SHEEHAN, K. H, STOCK, S. L, ALBERTS, V. A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 1997; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent Psychiatry - education; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child Psychiatry - education; Curriculum; Female; Health staff related problems. Vocational training; Humans; Internship and Residency; Male; Medical sciences; Psychiatry - education; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychotherapy - education; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Specialization; United States; United States; North America; America; Human; Educational program; Resident(student); Mental disorder; Psychiatry; Medical specialty; Occupational training; Public health
• ISSN: 0033-2720; 1573-6709
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1025457706039

We developed a questionnaire regarding issues in psychiatric residency training and distributed it to the chief residents at all United States general psychiatry residency training programs. We hoped to examine psychiatry residency program characteristics and see if any particular characteristics had a significant relationship to improved success in the 1994 National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) results. We found that those programs with six or more PGY-1 positions available in the NRMP, those programs with an associated child and adolescent psychiatry residency training program, and those programs offering a research elective had a higher PGY-1 match through the NRMP than programs without these features.