The Attitudes of Patients and Their Trainee Therapists Toward Participation in Psychiatric Board Examinations
HERBERT H. EVELOFF M.D.1, and
CHARLES P. McCREARY PH.D.2
1 Senior Staff Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024
2 Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024
The authors examined the attitudes of patients and of trainee therapists toward the participation of patients in an examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Neither the therapists nor the patients reported any serious untoward consequences. The patients reported a slightly positive effect and the therapists a slightly negative one, although neither trend reached statistical significance.
