The psychiatry resident research experience

RRTP Resident Research Publications

Senior Resident Research Abstracts

With this inaugural Resident Section of the California Journal of Emergency Medicine, CalJEM embarks on its mission to showcase the academic achievements of both EM residents and medical students interested in Emergency Medicine. Following are six abstracts submitted as part of their 2006 senior resident research projects at the University of California, Irvine. We wish to thank UCI Program Dir...

Taking Psychiatry Research Online

Psychiatry is in need of a major overhaul. In order to improve the precision with which we can treat, classify, and research mental health problems, we need bigger datasets than ever before. Web-based data collection provides a novel solution.

Qualitative research in psychiatry.

This paper is an overview of qualitative research and its application to psychiatry. It is introductory and attempts to describe both the aims of qualitative research and its underlying philosophical basis. We describe the practice and process of qualitative research and follow this with an overview of the 3 main methods of inquiry: interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. Through...

Is Psychiatry Scientific? A Letter to a 21st Century Psychiatry Resident

During the development of the DSM-5, even the lay press questioned psychiatr's scientific validity. This review provides 21st century psychiatry residents with ways of answering these attacks by defining the concepts and history of psychiatry (a branch of medicine), medicine and science. Psychiatric language has two levels: first, describing symptoms and signs (19th century descriptive psychopa...