Teaching Clinical Neuroscience to Psychiatry Residents: Model Curricula

Psychiatry trainees must therefore become skilled in being able to find, understand, critically appraise, and incorporate those advances that can meaningfully contribute to mental health and to the care of people living with mental illness. [...]some programs are limited in the availability of facul...

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Published in:Academic psychiatry 2014-04, Vol.38 (2), p.111-115
Main Authors: Coverdale, John, Balon, Richard, Beresin, Eugene V., Louie, Alan K., Tait, Glendon R., Goldsmith, Michelle, Roberts, Laura Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
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Behavioral Objectives
Brain research
Core curriculum
Curriculum - standards
Curriculum Design
Design
Editorial
Education
Educational Practices
Humans
Internship and Residency - standards
Medical Education
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental disorders
Mental health
Molecular biology
Neurobiology
Neurology
Neurosciences
Neurosciences - education
Otolaryngology
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - education
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Psychiatry trainees must therefore become skilled in being able to find, understand, critically appraise, and incorporate those advances that can meaningfully contribute to mental health and to the care of people living with mental illness. [...]some programs are limited in the availability of faculty as well as trained educators in the neurosciences and neuropsychiatry. Characteristics of model neuroscience curricula Authors Class size Resident levels No. of sessions Main method of instruction Topics taught Method(s) of evaluation Lacy and Hughes (2006) [29] 12 3rd 45 Lecture Neuroanatomy, functional neural systems, pharmacology, clinical neuropsychiatry Post-course survey Dunstone (2010) [30] 4 2nd 20 Resident- and faculty-taught sessions Neuroanatomy, neurobiology, molecular biology, perception, learning and memory, genetics, neurohormones, clinical cases Pre-/post-course survey, clinical literature review as an exam Etkin et al. A wide range of topics were taught (Table 2), including neuroanatomy, genetics, molecular biology, neurobiology, and neural systems including neural circuits, perception, learning and memory, case formulations, clinical dysfunctions, clinical neurology, social psychiatry, drug development, pharmacology, and other interventional approaches, constructing reviews, critical reading of the literature,
ISSN:1042-9670
1545-7230
DOI:10.1007/s40596-014-0045-7