A novel partnership in psychiatric education.
OBJECTIVE
The authors describe a unique institutional partnership between an adult psychiatry training program and a K-12 school that focuses on enriching educational opportunities and improving outcomes at both institutions.


METHODS
Beginning with reciprocal consultations, the partnership has expanded to involve the students and faculty at both institutions. Feedback has confirmed that both residents in the training program and teachers at the school consider the exchanges highly beneficial.


RESULTS
A wide range of educational improvements has resulted. In the training program, these have included recurring exposure to and interactions with children and adolescents in normative educational environments and increased reflection about effective pedagogy. In the school, improvements have ranged from more rounded intervention strategies to teachers' increased sophistication about neurodevelopmental phenomena in a learning setting.


CONCLUSIONS
Collaboration between an adult psychiatry training program and a K-12 school can provide significant benefits not otherwise available to both institutions. The authors believe this partnership model is valuable and might be replicated in other settings where adult and/or child training programs can establish similar relationships with a school.
Brown
Murray A
MA
Department of Psychiatry and Bio-Behavioral Services, David Geffen/UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. murray.brown@med.va.gov
Astman
James A
JA
D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration; D012106:Research; D012574:Schools