Education
The field of psychiatry has dramatically changed over the past several decades and, concurrently, the education offered to medical students has evolved. Yet today various medical schools offer strikingly different curricula, encourage the use of different texts, allow for different course durations (e.g., one school offers an 8 week clerkship while another offers 4 weeks).
What do educators feel works well with the current standards in psychiatry education? What do students think works best, or needs improvement? PsychSIGN encourages discourse in psychiatry education in the hopes of developing optimal standards. Read more about this discussion as well as current opportunities available to psych-minded med students.
Applying for Psychiatry Residency- Bak MK et al: Applying for Psychiatry Residency. Academic Psychiatry, 30:3, May-June 2006.
- Guide to the Match in Psychiatry Marcia Verduin, MD at the APA
Internships/ Externships/ Clerkships
- AACAP's Spurlock Minority Fellowships
- APA's "Real Psychiatry: Doctors in Action" Video
- NEW Psychiatry Quick Reference Cards for rotations (APA Version)
- Psychiatry Clerkship Quick Reference Cards (Dr. Scott Weigold Version)
- AMSA Psychiatry Summer Resources
- ADMSEP National Psychiatry Rotation Electives Catalogue
- APA Minority Medical Student Scholarships and Awards
- NIMH Summer Training on Aging Research Topics
- APA Summer Opportunities for Medical Students
- NYU Residency Reading List
- APSAA Comprehensive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Reading List
- APSAA Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Reading List
- Cutler JL et al. "Medical Students’ Perceptions of Psychiatry as a Career Choice." Acad Psychiatry 2006 30: 158-165.
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