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Psychiatric Residency

An Analysis of Training Activities With Recommendations

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The authors sought to develop recommendations regarding the optimal balance of psychiatric residency training activities. University of Toronto residents completed a weeklong time-log of their daytime training activities. Staff and resident focus groups were asked to comment on the data from this survey and on the variables that affect successful introduction of new requirements into psychiatric residency. In a large multicenter training program, supervised clinical experience was found to be the most valuable training activity, especially when accurate and specific feedback is provided.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

    Janet de Groot M.D., M.Sc. (Postgraduate Coordinator, Assistant Professor)

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Correspondence to Janet de Groot M.D., M.Sc..

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This work was completed at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, and presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, September 17th, 1997, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

We received unrestricted educational grants from Solvay-Kingswood and Pfizer for Phase I and a peer-reviewed grant for Phase II from the University Health Network Department of Psychiatry.

Thank you to Drs. L. Andermann, W.P. Fleisher, N. Herrmann, and A. Kaplan for their comments.

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de Groot, J., Tiberius, R., Sinai, J. et al. Psychiatric Residency. Acad Psychiatry 24, 139–146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.24.3.139

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