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Hamoda, Hesham M.; Sacks, Diane; Sciolla, Andres; Dewan, Mantosh; Fernandez, Antony; Gogineni, Rama Rao; Goldberg, Jeffrey; Kramer, Milton; Saunders, Ramotse; Sperber, Jacob; Rao, Nyapati R. – Academic Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: International medical graduates (IMGs) constitute a significant proportion of the psychiatric workforce in the United States. Observership programs serve an important role in preparing IMGs for U.S. residency positions; yet there are limited resources with information available on establishing these observerships, and none specific to…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Graduates, Psychiatry, Physicians
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Tan, Adrienne; Hawa, Raed; Sockalingam, Sanjeev; Abbey, Susan E. – Academic Psychiatry, 2013
Objective: The Teaching for Learning and Collaboration (TLC) Program is a teaching-skills program focusing on methods to improve student learning. This program was adopted to address the professional and personal challenges faced by International Medical Graduates (IMGs) completing a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine. Method: The authors…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Medical Education
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Wise, Thomas N. – Academic Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: The author describes a program for psychiatric residents in evaluating patients with paraphilic disorders. Methods: The program curriculum offers clinical education in paraphilic disorders and is organized by various perspectives within psychiatry, including the disease model, the life story, the dimensional perspective, and the…
Descriptors: Models, Graduates, Psychiatry, Patients
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Habl, Samar; Mintz, David L.; Bailey, Adrian – Academic Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: The authors examine the current place of personal therapy for residents in U.S. training programs. Methods: All U.S. training directors were provided an anonymous survey assessing current attitudes and practices with regard to personal therapy and training director perception of their residents' use of therapy. Results: Training…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Geographic Location, Therapy, Graduate Medical Education
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Gleason, Mary Margaret; Fritz, Gregory K. – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objectives: The authors describe the history, rationale, and outcomes of combined training programs in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child psychiatry ("triple board"), including narrative feedback from graduates and reflections upon the important components of the program. Methods: This article reviews the background and experiences of triple board…
Descriptors: Physicians, Graduates, Psychiatry, Pediatrics
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Ivany, Christopher G.; Russell, Robert K.; Vanessa, Venezia A.; Saito, Albert Y. – Academic Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: The authors describe how one child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program responded to emerging trends in clinical practice which increasingly demand that child and adolescent psychiatrists lead their colleagues through instruction and supervision. Methods: Data from surveys of recent graduates of child and adolescent training…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Psychiatry, Fellowships, Teaching Methods
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Hunt, Jeffrey; Stubbe, Dorothy E.; Hanson, Mark; Al-Mateen, Cheryl S.; Cuccio, Anne; Dingle, Arden D.; Glowinski, Anne; Guthrie, Elizabeth; Kelley, Kathy; Malloy, Erin M.; Mehlinger, Renee; O'Melia, Anne; Shatkin, Jess; Anders, Thomas F. – Academic Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has partnered with the Harvard Macy Program for Healthcare Educators so that selected child and adolescent psychiatry academic faculty might enhance their teaching expertise in order to possibly enhance recruitment of medical students into child and adolescent psychiatry.…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Medical Students, Graduates, Psychiatry
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Posner, Jonathan; Stewart, Jonathan; Rieder, Ronald – Academic Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: The authors describe a pilot program allowing psychiatric residents to participate in neurobiological evaluations of patients with Axis I disorders. The program aimed to familiarize residents with available tools for assessing cognitive and neuroanatomical abnormalities in psychiatric patients and to foster greater interest among…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Pilot Projects, Psychiatry, Neurology
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Halpain, Maureen C.; Jeste, Dilip V.; Trinidad, Geraldine I.; Wetherell, Julie L.; Lebowitz, Barry D. – Academic Psychiatry, 2005
OBJECTIVE: There is an urgent need for research training in psychiatry at early career stages, especially in geriatric psychiatry. The authors describe their first-year experience with the Summer Training in Aging Research Topics--in Mental Health (START-MH), a new federally funded national-level training program intended to offer intensive…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Mentors, Mental Health, Psychiatry