Harvard Review of Psychiatry · 2011 · 32 citations · 15 references
MedicineMedical EducationPsychiatryAdult PsychiatryCompetency-based EducationResidency TrainingCompetency AssessmentCompetency DevelopmentCompetency-based TrainingCompetency Model DesignCompetency-based ModelMentorship In Clinical PracticeMentorship In ResidencyResearch LiteracyResearch Skill DevelopmentResearch Skills DevelopmentResponsible Research Conduct
The Institute of Medicine has identified a critical shortage of psychiatrist‑researchers and called for competency‑based curricula to train them during residency. The article reviews existing research training approaches in psychiatry residency and proposes a developmental, competency‑based framework to address this shortage. The authors outline five core elements—mentoring, education, experience, time, and support—and six interrelated research competency domains—research literacy, content mastery, design and methods, biostatistics, presentation and writing, and responsible conduct—to guide competency‑based training.
The Institute of Medicine recently identified a critical shortage of psychiatrist-researchers and highlighted the need for competency-based curricula that promote research training during psychiatry residency as a way to address that shortage. In this article we review extant approaches to research training during psychiatry residency. We then identify five core elements necessary for promoting research training: (1) mentoring, (2) education, (3) experience, (4) time, and (5) support. We describe six interrelated domains of core research competencies that can be mastered gradually over the course of residency training: (1) research literacy, (2) content mastery of specific research topics, (3) principles of research design and methods, (4) principles of biostatistics, (5) presentation and writing skills, including grant writing, and (6) principles of responsible conduct of research. Finally, we propose a broadly applicable, developmental, competency-based framework for applying these core elements to research training during psychiatry residency.
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