Building for the future: the creation of a residency training track to foster innovation through clinical informatics in psychiatry. (5th October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vitiello, Evan; Kane, Michael; Hutto, Alissa; Hall, Austin
• Is Part Of: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Volume 27:Number 11(2020)
• Page Start: 1747
• Page End: 1751
• Publication Date: 2020-10-05
• Subjects: education -- residency -- informatics -- psychiatry, curriculum; Medical informatics -- Periodicals; Information Services -- Periodicals; Medical Informatics -- Periodicals; Médecine -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Informatica; Geneeskunde; Informatique médicale; Computer network resources; Electronic journals; 610.285
• DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa160
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1067-5027

Abstract

Abstract: Early clinical informatics (CI) education provides an introduction to CI methodologies for resident physicians to apply within their boarded specialties. A specialty notably absent from the effort to train residents in CI is psychiatry. We present a novel means of integrating CI exposure into a structured educational track within a psychiatry residency training program. The clinical informatics track at the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry is a 3-year, longitudinal experience open to residents starting in postgraduate year 2. To our knowledge, this is the first track of its kind within a psychiatry residency training program.