title: Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship: an innovative, year-long program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors present what is to their knowledge the first description of a model for longitudinal third-year medical student psychiatry education.
  
  
  METHODS
  A longitudinal, integrated psychiatric curriculum was developed, implemented, and sustained within the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship. Curriculum elements include longitudinal mentoring by attending physicians in an outpatient psychiatry clinic, exposure to the major psychotherapies, psychopharmacology training, acute psychiatry "immersion" experiences, and a variety of clinical and didactic teaching sessions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The longitudinal psychiatry curriculum has been sustained for 8 years to-date, providing effective learning as demonstrated by OSCE scores, NBME shelf exam scores, written work, and observed clinical work. The percentage of students in this clerkship choosing psychiatry as a residency specialty is significantly greater than those in traditional clerkships at Harvard Medical School and greater than the U.S. average.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Longitudinal integrated clerkship experiences are effective and sustainable; they offer particular strengths and opportunities for psychiatry education, and may influence student choice of specialty.
authors.affiliation: Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA. tgriswold@calliance.org
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Griswold
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bullock
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaufberg
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Albanese
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonilla
authors.forename: Ramona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dvorak
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Epelbaum
authors.forename: Lior
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Givon
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kueppenbender
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: J Wesley
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Derri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shtasel
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*