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A Chart-Stimulated Recall Activity to Assess Psychiatry Residents’ Treatment-Based, Clinical Reasoning Skills

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    Jeffrey J. Rakofsky, Hugh A. Stoddard, Ebrahim Haroon, Adriana P. Hermida, Andrea L. Crowell & Boadie W. Dunlop

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    Sarah M. Debrey

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JJR has received research support from Otsuka, Usona, Sage, Compass Pathways; consultation fees from 11Ten; honoraria from FOCUS, SMI Clinical Advisor, and Wayne State University; serves on the FOCUS journal editorial board, Academic Psychiatry editorial board, and ADMSEP executive council; has received funding from his institution to attend the ADMSEP annual conference. HAS has received honoraria from University of Arizona-Tucson School of Medicine and Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine. EH has participated on the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine Data Safety Monitoring Board. APH has received research funding from the National Institute of Aging, is president of the International Society of ECT and Neurostimulations, is a board member of the International Psychogeriatric Association, and is a board member of the National Network of Depression Centers. SMD and ALC have no disclosures to report. BWD has received research support from Compass Pathways, Boehringer Ingelheim, Usona Institute, Otsuka and has received consulting fees from Cerebral Therapeutics, Otsuka, Sage, Myriad Neuroscience, Greenwich Biosciences, Sophren Therapeutics.

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Rakofsky, J.J., Stoddard, H.A., Haroon, E. et al. A Chart-Stimulated Recall Activity to Assess Psychiatry Residents’ Treatment-Based, Clinical Reasoning Skills. Acad Psychiatry 47, 663–666 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01789-3

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