OBJECTIVE The authors evaluate the current practices and perceptions of graduates of combined family medicine-psychiatry residency programs in the following areas: preparation for practice, boundary formation, and integration of skills sets. METHOD The authors conducted an electronic cross-sectional survey of all nationwide combined family medicine-psychiatry training graduates in the spring ...

Like all medical specialty boards, the ABPN offers subspecialty board certification in this field. However, in order to qualify even to take this subspecialty board examination, a candidate must have completed a four-year residency in psychiatry, been examined and attained board certification by the ABPN in psychiatry, and undergone a rigorous one-year, full-time postresidency fellowship in law...

This study outlines current trends in the education of psychiatric residents in forensic psychiatry. As general psychiatrists are more frequently confronted with issues pertaining to psychiatry and the law, residency training in these areas becomes increasingly important. In order to study the educational experience of psychiatric residents in forensic psychiatry, a survey was sent to all resid...

BACKGROUND The postgraduate training program in psychiatry in Saudi Arabia, which was established in 1997, is a 4-year residency program. Written exams comprising of multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used as a summative assessment of residents in order to determine their eligibility for promotion from one year to the next. Test blueprints are not used in preparing examinations. OBJECTIVE T...

Booth and his colleagues have made an important contribution to the emerging evidence base that shows education in forensic psychiatry topics can improve attitudes toward the field. Given the desinstitutionalization of those with severe mental illness from state psychiatric facilities and the incarceration of many individuals with severe mental illness in correctional facilities, the need to tr...

BIO Dr. De Golia specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders with an expertise in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. She is the Director of the Evaluation Clinic. Dr. De Golia is the Associate Chair for the Clinician Educator Line where she is involved in developing faculty development programs including mentorship. She is also the Associate Residency Director of the Adult Psych...

OBJECTIVES To describe the administrative functioning of all current Canadian psychiatry residency training programs (RTPs) and to suggest available improvements to existing systems. METHOD We obtained data about the 2004 RTPs by distributing 2 questionnaires to all Canadian psychiatry RTPs. RESULTS Residency program committees (RPCs) are mainly consultative and carry only a small amount of...

OBJECTIVE The authors assessed whether current methods of evaluating residency applicants and residents identify psychiatrists who later develop evidence of impairment. METHOD Residency admissions and performance data for all physicians who were enrolled in a psychiatry residency between 1965 and 1994 and who were referred to an impaired physician program up to 35 years later were matched for...

OBJECTIVE Psychotherapy and biological psychiatry remain divided in psychiatry residency curricula. Behavioral neurobiology and neuropsychiatry provide a systems-level framework that allows teachers to integrate biology, psychodynamics, and psychology. METHOD The authors detail the underlying assumptions and outline of a neural systems-based neuroscience course they teach at the National Capi...