A neurosciences-in-psychiatry curriculum project for residents in psychiatry.
OBJECTIVE
The author describes a 20-session, student-centered course relating contemporary neuroscience to psychiatry for second-year psychiatric residents.


METHODS
Twenty residents who took the course (2003-2007) completed pre- and postcourse surveys and were contacted for more remote follow-up regarding the course.


RESULTS
Survey results are predominantly qualitative and positive.


CONCLUSIONS
This course is intended to be an active, student-centered learning experience as one exploration of practice-based learning, and it also explores the use of various applications of emerging telecommunications and information technology as a further learning goal. The course may have particular relevance for training programs with a dearth of local expertise in neuroscience relevant to psychiatry.
Dunstone
David C
DC
M.D., Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Psychiatry, 1722 Shaffer Rd., 3rd Floor, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA. dunstone@kcms.msu.edu
D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum; D004493:Education / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009488:Neurosciences; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods