title: Assessing Cultural Psychiatry Milestones Through an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Culturally appropriate tools for patient assessment are needed to train psychiatric residents. An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) can be a helpful tool for evaluating trainees in the psychiatry milestones pertaining to cultural competency.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventeen psychiatry residents and fellows at the University of Massachusetts participated in two small-group OSCE exercises to learn cultural interviewing using the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview. Trainee groups presented a cultural formulation and received feedback. Participants were surveyed about their comfort with cultural interviewing before and after the exercise.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Paired t tests (N = 16) showed that mean level of comfort with the Cultural Formulation Interview increased by a mean of 0.5 points after training (t = 3.16, df = 15, p < 01 95 % CI = 163-837).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The UMass culturally appropriate assessment OSCE enhanced psychiatric trainees' comfort with culturally appropriate interviewing using the Cultural Formulation Interview.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA. Auralyd.padilla@umassmemorial.org.
authors.forename: Auralyd
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Padilla
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Sheldon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benjamin
authors.affiliation: NYS Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lewis-Fernandez
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005008:Ethnopsychology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D016544:Patient Simulation; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education
keywords: Cultural competency; Objective structured clinical examination; Psychiatry milestones