Resident's Corner

Carve out a career in the area of psychiatry that interests you. If you’re drawn to specialized topics, such as atypical bipolar disorder, club drugs, glutamate transporters, or genetic links to autism, then pursue those avenues. Here, advice to psychiatry residents.

The President and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges outlines the reasons psychiatrists are well positioned to lead in this emerging culture of medicine.

In this Masters Series contribution to the Resident's Corner, the author writes that he made a deliberate choice to give up pediatrics for psychiatry. When he was a psychiatry resident, his mentor told him, “You should pick a field on the frontier.” Now he offers his insight for early career psychiatrists.

It was not until the introduction of this MAOI that the term “atypical depression” began to emerge to describe a particular variant of nonendogenous depression. Take the quiz and join the discussion to learn more.

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have turned to social media to build, manage, market, and diversify their practices. How can clinicians maintain patient privacy and confidentiality and still benefit from social media? Details in this webcast.

How does your personal income last year compare with the previous year? What was your practice’s overhead as a percentage of medical revenue? How many hours per week do physicians work, on average? Find out in the annual Physicians Compensation Survey.

The demands on physicians keep growing—they are not only responsible for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, they are subject to all manner of related administrative and practice responsibilities. It’s no wonder that they are too busy to step back and periodically assess themselves and what they are doing.

Earlier this year the American College of Physicians had to spell out that it is ethically appropriate for physicians to talk about cost with patients. This speaks to how far we as physicians have to go to be fully engaged in this conversation.

Dr John C. Whitehorn shaped mental health policy at the national level, and his influence is still alive in his former residents and the young psychiatrists we have trained.

When you have a strong team, you can provide quality mental health care and have an immensely satisfying career—even in the middle of a cornfield.

As the end of my intern year approached, one of my chief residents told me that second year is the year “you really become a psychiatrist.” “A real psychiatrist?” I was waiting (and hoping) to feel like one.

Did you focus on CME? Inpatient psychiatry? Medication updates? Tell us-we'd like to know.

In the last lecture of a week-long visiting professorship at Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Professor, Thomas Gutheil, MD, spoke about boundary issues in clinical practice. Here Dr Gutheil touches on key points covered in his presentation.

Periprocedural advancements, including liberalization of concomitant and pre-treatment medications, add to the comfort and tolerability of ECT, but adverse effects do exist. More in this quiz.

Major depression is a common chronic illness within the general US population. What is the approximate prevalence for MDD in the US population?