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International Review of Psychiatry... 2023
Topics: Humans; Addiction Medicine; Psychiatry; Internship and Residency
PubMed: 38299656
DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2023.2275699 -
Asian Journal of Psychiatry Dec 2023The advancement of large language models such as ChatGPT, opens new possibilities in psychiatry but also invites scrutiny. This paper examines the potential...
The advancement of large language models such as ChatGPT, opens new possibilities in psychiatry but also invites scrutiny. This paper examines the potential opportunities, risks, and crucial areas of focus within this area. The active engagement of the mental health community is seen as critical to ensure ethical practice, equal access, and a patient-centric approach.
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Language; Mental Health
PubMed: 37898100
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103808 -
Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of... Feb 2024
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Prisons; Forensic Psychiatry
PubMed: 38049678
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-023-01914-2 -
Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna,... Sep 2023The foundation of a German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) was initiated at the Second World Congress of Biological Psychiatry of the WFSBP in Barcelona in 1978.... (Review)
Review
The foundation of a German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) was initiated at the Second World Congress of Biological Psychiatry of the WFSBP in Barcelona in 1978. Its mission was and is to promote interdisciplinary research on the biology of mental disorders and to translate results of biological research into clinical practice. During the presidency of Peter Falkai, its tasks were defined to improve the quality and support of biologically oriented research in Germany by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; German Research Foundation), BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) and EU (European Union), to promote young researchers doing biologically oriented research, to improve on the diagnosis and therapy of mental disorders and to advise policy makers by taking part in legal processes. The DGBP has been a corporate member of the WFSBP from its beginning, became a cooperative member of the DGPPN (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde), later of the German Brain Council, and fostered relationships with other scientific societies. Over the past 45 years, more than twenty congresses were held in Germany and neighboring countries. Emerging from the pandemic, the DGBP is ready to continue its mission to promote interdisciplinary research on the biology of mental disorders with a focus on the development of young scientists and to translate results of biological research into clinical practice, with regard to pharmacotherapy in close cooperation with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuropsychopharmakologie und Pharmakopsychiatrie (AGNP). In this sense, this article also aims to stimulate the cooperation of the society with other national and international partners and to foster new relationships with young scientists and professionals interested in the aims and goals of the DGBP.
Topics: Humans; Biological Psychiatry; Societies; Germany; Mental Disorders; Physicians
PubMed: 37142786
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-023-02645-2 -
Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of... Aug 2023Dutch psychiatry residents who are dismissed from their training program have the opportunity to appeal the decision. Those appeals are publicly available. This report...
OBJECTIVE
Dutch psychiatry residents who are dismissed from their training program have the opportunity to appeal the decision. Those appeals are publicly available. This report explores the appeals of residents dismissed for unprofessional behavior.
METHODS
The authors analyzed caselaw of dismissed psychiatry residents brought before the conciliation board of The Royal Dutch Medical Association and compared them to a control group of caselaw of dismissed family medicine residents.
RESULTS
From 2011 to 2020, 19 psychiatry residents were dismissed for failing to meet the competencies of the CanMEDS professional domain and matched with 19 family medicine residents. Most psychiatry residents deficient in professionalism were considered deficient in their attitude, in reliability of keeping agreements, or in their ability to profit from supervisors' feedback. Insufficient professional behavior overlapped with insufficient communication, collaboration, and management. Half of the psychiatry residents with deficits in professionalism went on sick leave at some time. Between residents in psychiatry and family medicine, or between psychiatry residents with and without a favorable conciliation board decision, no statistical differences were found regarding gender, year of residency, and number of insufficient competencies.
CONCLUSIONS
The deficiencies in the professionalism of residents who challenged their program director's decision to be dismissed mostly consisted of inadequate attitude or the inability to profit from feedback, suggesting that these residents lack empathy, introspection, or both.
Topics: Humans; Reproducibility of Results; Internship and Residency; Clinical Competence; Professional Misconduct; Psychiatry
PubMed: 36853268
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-023-01746-0 -
BMC Medical Education Sep 2023The authors established entrustable professional activities for psychiatry residents in China.
PURPOSE
The authors established entrustable professional activities for psychiatry residents in China.
METHODS
The authors conducted a literature research and two expert consultation rounds following the Delphi method in 2022 to screen and optimize entrustable professional activities for psychiatry residents.
RESULTS
The effective questionnaire recovery rate in the two consultation rounds was 100% (44/44). The expert authority coefficients of the first and second consultation rounds were 0.861 and 0.881, respectively. The Kendall harmony coefficients of the first and second expert consultation rounds were 0.279 (χ = 405.43, P < .001) and 0.389 (χ = 3456.83, P < .001), respectively. The arithmetic means of the various indicators' evaluation results in the two consultation rounds ranged between 3.61 and 4.93, and the full score rates were between 13.6% and 93.2%. The authors established 17 entrustable professional activities for psychiatry residents and their contents with phase-based modularization and formulated the entrustable level of each at various stages.
CONCLUSIONS
Combined with standardized psychiatry training characteristics, the authors preliminarily established phase-specific and modular entrustable professional activities for psychiatry residents. The formulated entrustable professional activities are suitable for the practice and clinical environment of standardized psychiatry training in China. The devised system has good observability and measurability and provides a simple and feasible competency evaluation method for standardized psychiatry resident training.
Topics: Humans; China; Education, Medical; Group Processes; Referral and Consultation; Psychiatry
PubMed: 37658351
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04583-9 -
Orvosi Hetilap Sep 2023Decrease in the number of forensic psychiatric experts recently reached a critical level. Shortage of forensic experts caused difficulties in the health care as well as...
INTRODUCTION
Decrease in the number of forensic psychiatric experts recently reached a critical level. Shortage of forensic experts caused difficulties in the health care as well as in the justice system.
OBJECTIVE
Surveying of how the field of forensic psychiatry and the forensic psychiatric expert work can be made more attractive.
METHOD
We performed an online survey among forensic psychiatric experts and specialists in psychiatry. We complied a questionnaire that beside demographic data contained questions in 4 areas. The first 2 areas of the questionnaire - simplifying the forensic psychiatry training (10 items), decreasing the cost of the forensic psychiatry training (5 items) - consisted of simple tatements. Responders had to indicate on a 10-point Likert scale their level of agreement. In the last 2 areas, participants were asked to describe in unstructured format whether they see any circumstance that makes forensic psychiatry attractive or unattractive. The questionnaire was sent out in electronic form to the forensic psychiatric experts on the mailing list of the Hungarian Forensic Expert Chamber, and all specialists in psychiatry on the mailing list of the Hungarian Medical Chamber.
RESULTS
Altogether 171 persons filled in the questionnaire with a mean age of 57.26 ± 11.57 years. There were 122 (71.3%) females among the participants. The following proposals received the highest ratings from the forensic psychiatric experts as well as from the specialists in psychiatry: increasing the number of the training institutes; decreasing the costs of the training; making the Hungarian Forensic Expert Chamber course free of charge; and introducing a stipend to cover the costs of the training.
DISCUSSION
Results of the survey indicate that active forensic psychiatric experts and specialists in psychiatry representing a potential professional resource, concur that forensic psychiatry training can be made more attractive mainly with increasing the number of training institutes and decreasing the total costs of the training which is compiled from different constituents.
CONCLUSION
Due to the critical lack of necessary professionals, urgent action is needed to make forensic psychiatry more popular and the forensic psychiatry qualification easier to obtain. Orv Hetil. 2023; 164(35): 1373-1380.
Topics: Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Aged; Male; Forensic Psychiatry; Forensic Medicine; Psychiatry; Academies and Institutes; Fees and Charges
PubMed: 37660349
DOI: 10.1556/650.2023.32829 -
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine &... Apr 2024Sports psychiatry is a young field of medicine and psychiatry that focuses on mental health among athletes, and sports and exercise within psychiatry and mental...
Sports psychiatry is a young field of medicine and psychiatry that focuses on mental health among athletes, and sports and exercise within psychiatry and mental disorders. However, the development of sports psychiatry and its fields of activity vary from region to region and are not uniform yet. Sports psychiatry and the role of sports psychiatrists have also already been discussed in the field of sports and exercise medicine, and within medical teams in competitive and elite sports. A uniform definition on sports psychiatry, its fields of activity, sports psychiatrist, and the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities (plus attitudes, eKSA) of the sports psychiatrist were developed as part of an International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP) Summit, as well as First International Consensus Statement on Sports Psychiatry. Three fields of activity can be distinguished within sports psychiatry: (i) mental health and disorders in competitive and elite sports, (ii) sports and exercise in prevention of and treatment for mental disorders, and (iii) mental health and sport-specific mental disorders in recreational sports. Each of these fields have its own eKSA. The definitions on sports psychiatry and sports psychiatrists, as well as the framework of eKSA in the different fields of activity of sports psychiatrists will help to unify and standardize the future development of sports psychiatry, establish a standard of service within sports psychiatry and together with the neighboring disciplines, and should be included into current, and future sports psychiatry education and training.
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Sports; Psychiatrists; Exercise; Athletes
PubMed: 38610076
DOI: 10.1111/sms.14627 -
Journal of Clinical Psychology in... Jun 2024This article describes a Diversity Dialogue Facilitator Training Program for Trainees, an innovative project that prepares psychology and psychiatry learners to...
This article describes a Diversity Dialogue Facilitator Training Program for Trainees, an innovative project that prepares psychology and psychiatry learners to facilitate diversity dialogues with healthcare professionals (i.e., clinical and research faculty, staff, and learners) in academic healthcare settings. Through participating in this program, trainees learn to facilitate discussions in which participants reflect upon oppression, discrimination, and disparities; explore their biases; connect and exchange views with colleagues regarding challenging societal events; and delineate action steps for advancing equity, inclusion, social responsivity, and justice in their professional and personal lives. After outlining contextual factors that informed project development, implementation, and dissemination, the iterative process of creating and implementing the training curriculum is detailed, with the aim of offering a model for other academic health center-based training programs interested in establishing a similar initiative. Lessons learned also are shared with the hope of contributing to future efforts to advance training in diversity dialogue facilitation and expand the role of psychologists in medical settings.
Topics: Humans; Cultural Diversity; Psychiatry; Curriculum; Psychology
PubMed: 37932519
DOI: 10.1007/s10880-023-09978-w -
Australasian Psychiatry : Bulletin of... Dec 2023The RANZCP recently released Position Statement 48 on the 'safety and wellbeing of psychiatrists and those in psychiatry training'. This article will examine the five...
OBJECTIVE
The RANZCP recently released Position Statement 48 on the 'safety and wellbeing of psychiatrists and those in psychiatry training'. This article will examine the five key domains highlighted by this statement and provide suggestions on how this guidance might relate to trainees. The domains covered are (i) safe workplaces free from discrimination, bullying, harassment, and violence; (ii) positive team cultures; (iii) positive professional peer relationships; (iv) supportive supervision and mentorship; and (v) work-life balance.
CONCLUSIONS
In the context of the significant and complex demands of psychiatry training, Position Statement 48 helps to provide a framework for trainees and the people and systems that support them to understand, anticipate, and successfully manage the potential risks to trainee wellbeing and safety.
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Internship and Residency; Workplace; Education, Medical
PubMed: 37906172
DOI: 10.1177/10398562231211135