MEDI 9331 Scholarly Activities Clinical Years
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Spring 2-27-2025
Abstract
Residents play a crucial role in shaping medical students’ learning experiences and career decisions. However, interns enter residency with varying levels of teaching experience and may struggle to engage students while managing their clinical workload. This variability often leads to inconsistent educational experiences across rotations. In Psychiatry, students frequently find the Mental Status Examination (MSE) particularly challenging due to time constraints in clinical teaching, often resulting in a superficial understanding and rote documentation. As residents advance, their increasing clinical responsibilities and distance from Step 2/Shelf-relevant material can further limit their ability to provide effective teaching. This project aims to bridge these gaps by offering structured, accessible resources that enhance student learning while reducing the teaching burden on residents. This project provides a two-pronged educational approach to enhance psychiatry teaching. First, a self-directed MSE PowerPoint Guide introduces students to core MSE concepts before starting their rotation, reducing the burden on residents to provide this foundational teaching. Second, an indexed AMBOSS Question Guide allows residents to efficiently locate high-yield discussion points relevant to clinical cases, bridging the gap between clinical learning and Step 2/Shelf exam preparation. The PowerPoint offers multiple learning formats, including reading, podcast, and interactive review, while the Question Guide is organized by clinical presentation to facilitate quick implementation. Medical students can independently review the MSE guide before clinic, ensuring they are better prepared for patient encounters, while residents can use the indexed questions to enhance real-time teaching with minimal additional effort. By providing structured pre-clinical preparation for students and efficient teaching support for residents, this project aims to enhance psychiatry education, improve student engagement, and minimize the teaching burden on residents. Future research will focus on piloting these tools in clinical settings to assess their impact on resident teaching confidence, student engagement, and Psychiatry Shelf performance. Additionally, expanding this framework to incorporate interdisciplinary case-based teaching could reinforce psychiatry’s clinical relevance across specialties and help address stigma toward the field.
Recommended Citation
Ahmad, Faiza and Chapa, Lesley, "Standardizing Resident Teaching in Psychiatry: A Guide for Student Engagement" (2025). MEDI 9331 Scholarly Activities Clinical Years. 88.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/som9331/88
Academic Level
medical student
Mentor/PI Department
Psychiatry
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