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Using the Project ECHO Model to Facilitate Mental Health Training in Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education: Results from Two Pilot Programs

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Acknowledgements

We would also like to acknowledge the Penn State Project ECHO team for their support in developing and delivering the education intervention for this study.

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Research reported in this publication was partially supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH), through Grant UL1 TR002014.

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  1. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Aditya Joshi, Usman Hameed, Eliana Hempel, Michael McShane, Erik Lehman, Ailyn Diaz, Ankit Jain, Jennifer Kraschnewski & Paul Haidet

  2. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

    Aum Pathare

  3. University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Gary Beck Dallaghan

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Program assessment for Penn State project ECHO has been deemed exempt from Institutional Review Board (IRB) review and approval (STUDY00018204).

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Jennifer Kraschnewski: Support for the present manuscript (paid to institution)—NIH; grants (paid to institution)—PCORI, HRSA, OMH, CDC, NIH, AHRQ, Merck Foundation; support for attending meetings and travel (paid to institution)—PCORI; Advisory Board (paid to individual)—Sanofi.

Erik Lehman: Support for the present manuscript (paid to institution)—NIH.

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Joshi, A., Pathare, A., Hameed, U. et al. Using the Project ECHO Model to Facilitate Mental Health Training in Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education: Results from Two Pilot Programs. Acad Psychiatry 47, 416–421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01715-z

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