The exceptional importance of international medical graduates (IMGs) in academic psychiatry (1, 2) is underscored in this special theme issue of our journal. As noted by Boulet et al. in this collection, about 31% of the psychiatry workforce in the United States are IMGs, and about 32% are psychiatry residents (3). In clinical psychiatric practice, IMGs disproportionately serve poor patients an...

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted cruel and unusual punishment to include those that are excessive and not graduated and proportioned to the offense and those that do not consider the defendant’s degree of criminal culpability. In the case o...

How did you first become interested in psychotherapy? My decision to become a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst dates back to the early 1970s, a few years before I entered medical school at the age of 21. At that time, I had read all the books written by psychoanalysts Karen Horney and Erich Fromm. However, my interest in psychological literature had started during adolescence, when I was lucky en...

The patient was a 14-year-old sixth-grade girl who had been born in Sweden and now lived with her mother. The patient was taken to the Psychiatric Emergency Department because she was aggressive toward her mother, who reported that the patient had frequent periods of uncontrollable rage, during which the patient would scream and spit at her mother. The patient had undergone cadaveric left later...

Academic Psychiatry has devoted the current issue to papers from various nations across the world. As we become more interconnected and interdependent, it is desirable for psychiatric educators to share innovative educational programming among international institutions. Beyond the value of learning novel approaches, appreciation of the practice of psychiatry in different nations enriches the c...

we aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics.in a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of iran located in tehran (tehran, shah...

Objective. To determine if Grit-S scores correlate with academic success in a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program, as well as the pursuit and attainment of pharmacy postgraduate (residency or fellowship) training. Methods. A 28-item survey was administered to third- and fourth-year (P3 and P4) pharmacy students. Variables queried included Grit-S score, demographics, pharmacy experience prior to...