@article{72304e7cc991412ca1e71932821a4e9f,
title = "Getting our own house in order: Improving psychiatry education to medical students as a prelude to medical school education reform",
abstract = "Objective: The authors summarize efforts to revitalize psychiatry teaching to medical students at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in advance of a major overhaul of the medical school curriculum. Methods: This preliminary report chronicles key challenges and the organization of the reform effort within the departments of psychiatry affiliated with the medical school. Results: Based upon a comprehensive internal review of psychiatric education at the medical school, the HMS Psychiatry Executive Committee and psychiatry faculty concluded that psychiatry teaching was underresourced and lacked cohesion and consistent standards and expectations across clinical sites involved in psychiatry teaching. Through a willingness to identify and vigorously address deficiencies in medical student education within a large decentralized program, psychiatry has earned a reputation as an effective reform agent at the medical school. Conclusions: Psychiatry education improvements have strengthened our partnership with the medical school as it is undertaking major educational reform of its entire curriculum.",
author = "Alpert, {Jonathan E.} and Steve Schlozman and Badaracco, {Mary Anne} and Jay Burke and Borus, {Jonathan F.}",
note = "Funding Information: A director and associate director of medical student education in psychiatry were appointed in July 2004, following a national search. They serve on the Medical Education Council with three chiefs and work closely with the HMS Psychiatry Executive Committee and faculty. The previous position of director of medical student education was funded largely by one of the psychiatry departments, at which the director also served as departmental director of medical student education, with a small amount of funding from the medical school for the director{\textquoteright}s role in leading the preclinical psychopathology course. Funding for the new director and associate director positions is now shared between the individual departments of psychiatry and the medical school. The incumbents are responsible for the overall coordination and leadership of the HMS psychiatry medical student education program. Other individuals have been appointed or have continued as education directors at each of the psychiatry departments. Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1176/appi.ap.30.2.170",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "170--173",
journal = "Academic Psychiatry",
issn = "1042-9670",
publisher = "American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.",
number = "2",
}