title: Teaching evidence-based approaches to suicide risk assessment and prevention that enhance psychiatric training.
abstract: This report describes one in a series of National Institute of Health (NIH) supported conferences aimed at enhancing the ability of leaders of psychiatry residency training to teach research literacy and produce both clinician-scholars and physician-scientists in their home programs. Most psychiatry training directors would not consider themselves research scholars or even well-schooled in evidence based practice. Yet they are the front line educators to prepare tomorrow's psychiatrists to keep up with, critically evaluate, and in some cases actually participate in the discovery of new and emerging psychiatric knowledge. This annual conference is meant to help psychiatry training directors become more enthusiastic, knowledgeable and pedagogically prepared to create research-friendly environments at their home institutions, so that more trainees will, in turn, become research literate, practice evidence-based psychiatry, and enter research fellowships and careers. The overall design of each year's meeting is a series of plenary sessions introducing participants to new information pertaining to the core theme of that year's meeting, integrated with highly interactive small group teaching sessions designed to consolidate knowledge and provide pragmatic teaching tools appropriate for residents at various levels of training. The theme of each meeting, selected to be a compelling and contemporary clinical problem, serves as a vehicle to capture training directors' attention while teaching relevant brain science, research literacy and effective pedagogy. This report describes the content and assessment of the 2011 annual pre-meeting, "Evidence-based Approaches to Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention: Insights from the Neurosciences and Behavioral Sciences for use in Psychiatry Residency Training."
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. szisook@ucsd.edu
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mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research / Q000193:education; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention