title: Improving the pedagogy associated with the teaching of psychopharmacology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors summarize two special sessions focused on the teaching of psychopharmacology at the 2003 and 2004 annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). The focus was on whether "improving the teaching-learning process" in psychiatric residency programs could improve clinical practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Problems of strategies and pedagogic techniques that have been used were presented from multiple perspectives (e.g., from a dean, department chair, training director, and former students).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was a consensus that action involving psychopharmacology organizations and the American Association of Directors of Residency Training in Psychiatry (AADPRT) was necessary to improve "evidence-based" competencies before graduation and to follow prescribing patterns into clinical practice to determine whether the standards of care could be improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. iraglick@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Ira D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Glick
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salzman
authors.forename: Bruce M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Donald F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moutier
authors.forename: Henry A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Nasrallah
authors.forename: Dost
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ongur
authors.forename: Po
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sidney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zisook
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000193:education; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000193:education*; D012015:Reference Standards; D013663:Teaching