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Developing and Managing a Didactic Curriculum in Psychiatric Graduate Medical Education

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This chapter provides an overview of building and improving upon a psychiatry training program didactic curriculum. It explores how to include the didactic elements required by the ACGME while aligning with the goals and values of the specific training program, institution, and community served. It provides options for developing one’s own curriculum and supplementing with nationally developed curricula on different topics. The chapter considers who is appropriate to teach the training program didactics, when to hold didactics, and offers tips for different types of learning activities. Finally, it outlines how to appropriately assess and improve the curriculum over time.

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  1. The Howard Center, Burlington, VT, USA

    Allison S. Brandt

  2. MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Scott R. Beach

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Scott R. Beach

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Matthew Macaluso

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA

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  3. Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    J. Mark Kinzie

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Deborah S. Cowley

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Brandt, A.S., Beach, S.R. (2022). Developing and Managing a Didactic Curriculum in Psychiatric Graduate Medical Education. In: Macaluso, M., Houston, L.J., Kinzie, J.M., Cowley, D.S. (eds) Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00836-8_11

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