Journal article
Neuroimaging Education in Psychiatry Residency Training: Needs Assessment
Academic psychiatry, v 44(3), pp 311-315
01 Jun 2020
PMID: 31853858
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Abstract
The authors investigated the attitudes, self-perceived knowledge, and the need for a dedicated neuroimaging curriculum among psychiatrists-in-training.
An anonymous voluntary 20-item Web-based survey was distributed to psychiatry residents at seven university-based USA programs between December 2017 and February 2019.
Of 302 psychiatry residents, 183 (response rate, 60.5%) completed the survey. Although a large majority of residents (83%) believed that neuroradiology education is important to psychiatric training, only 7% reported that they are receiving adequate training in this discipline. The majority (80%) believed that there should be a formal neuroimaging curriculum during their training. Self-perceived competence and comfort level was found to be low with several psychiatrically relevant neuroimaging modalities. In particular, regarding CT head/brain MRI, there was a marked difference in self-perceived competence at interpreting the actual brain images (8%) versus the radiological reports/impression summaries (48%). Comfort level with functional neuroimaging was especially low (7%). Clinically, only 26% reported confidence at being able to explain neuroimaging topics to patients. Compared to junior residents, senior residents rated higher confidence at interpreting the radiological reports/impression summaries of CT head/brain MRI (p = 0.008) and PET/SPECT (p = 0.014), but no difference was found with the actual brain images. Further, senior residents were less likely to identify with "neurophobia" (p = 0.028) and more likely to believe that a neuroimaging curriculum should be included in psychiatric residency training (p = 0.027) when compared to junior residents.
Psychiatrists-in-training have a very strong interest in neuroimaging education. Future educational interventions should address this need.
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- Title
- Neuroimaging Education in Psychiatry Residency Training: Needs Assessment
- Creators
- Michel Medina - Palo Alto UniversityDaniel Lee - Northwestern UniversityDavid Martinez Garza - University of MiamiEric L Goldwaser - University of Maryland, BaltimoreThanh Thuy Truong - Baylor UniversityAbena Apraku - Drexel UniversityJessica Cosgrove - Zucker Hillside HospitalJoseph J Cooper - University of Illinois at Chicago
- Publication Details
- Academic psychiatry, v 44(3), pp 311-315
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000534246300011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85077017858
- Other Identifier
- 991021860677804721
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