PsychSIGN Region 1

Ideas/Toolkit for your PsychSIG

One of the greatest benefits of the PsychSIGN network is the ability to share ideas and information with like-minded medical students at peer institutions. During the 2007 national conference in San Diego, and again during the 2008 national conference in Washington DC, representatives from a number of U.S. Region 1 schools met during regional time to discuss different activities that they had held during the past academic year. Many of these ideas are listed below.

Please feel free to use and adapt anything on this page for your own PsychSIG chapter's use—and to share successful activities from your school with this group so that others can benefit from your creativity! This year, we are placing an extra emphasis on community psychiatry, so please write in with ideas about how psychiatric practitioners can more successfully integrate into the communities to which we belong.

Activities Suggested by Region 1 Schools (Most commonly used ideas in bold)

Start of year meet and greets with medical students, residents, and faculty
Dinner or lunchtime panel discussions
Discussions with residents and residency directors
Movie screenings
Cross-disciplinary collaboration with other departments (e.g. Psych + Ob/Gyn, Psych + HIV/AIDS interest group, etc.)
Activities in conjunction with national events, e.g. National Eating Disorders Week, National Depression Screening Day, etc.
Helping with groups like NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
Faculty-hosted dinner discussions
Interviewing a psychiatric patient in front of students
"Speed-dating" lunch: Students go on 5 minute "dates" with representatives of different psychiatric subspecialties, then rotate
Coffee with the residents: Informal way to discuss case studies or just a "day in the life"
Attending residents' courses, psychiatric grand rounds

Ideas for discussion topics/speakers

Patients from the community
Psychoanalysis/psychotherapy
Women's behavioral health
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Psychiatry and cinema
Psychiatry in the news (e.g. Andrea Yates, forensics cases, Virginia Tech shootings, bullying/cyber-bullying)
Student mental health and student wellness movements
"Disaster psychiatry"—role of mental health practitioners after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, earthquakes in China
Genital mutilation
LGBT mental health
Psychiatric illness and creativity

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	Ideas/Toolkit for your PsychSIG One of the greatest benefits of the PsychSIGN network is the ability to share ideas and information with like-minded medical students at peer institutions. During the 2007 national conference in San Diego, and again during the 2008 national conference in Washington DC, representatives from a number of U.S. Region 1 schools met during regional time to discuss different activities that they had held during the past academic year. Many of these ideas are listed below. Please feel free to use and adapt anything on this page for your own PsychSIG chapter's use—and to share successful activities from your school with this group so that others can benefit from your creativity! This year, we are placing an extra emphasis on community psychiatry, so please write in with ideas about how psychiatric practitioners can more successfully integrate into the communities to which we belong. Activities Suggested by Region 1 Schools (Most commonly used ideas in bold) Start of year meet and greets with medical students, residents, and faculty Dinner or lunchtime panel discussions Discussions with residents and residency directors Movie screenings Cross-disciplinary collaboration with other departments (e.g. Psych + Ob/Gyn, Psych + HIV/AIDS interest group, etc.) Activities in conjunction with national events, e.g. National Eating Disorders Week, National Depression Screening Day, etc. Helping with groups like NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) Faculty-hosted dinner discussions Interviewing a psychiatric patient in front of students "Speed-dating" lunch: Students go on 5 minute "dates" with representatives of different psychiatric subspecialties, then rotate Coffee with the residents: Informal way to discuss case studies or just a "day in the life" Attending residents' courses, psychiatric grand rounds Ideas for discussion topics/speakers Patients from the community Psychoanalysis/psychotherapy Women's behavioral health Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Psychiatry and cinema Psychiatry in the news (e.g. Andrea Yates, forensics cases, Virginia Tech shootings, bullying/cyber-bullying) Student mental health and student wellness movements "Disaster psychiatry"—role of mental health practitioners after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, earthquakes in China Genital mutilation LGBT mental health Psychiatric illness and creativity © Justin Chen 2008