Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1122-1126
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Four-year evaluation of a psychiatric clerkship: 1982-1986
LW Reiser, WH Sledge and M Edelson
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06519.
The authors describe a psychiatric clerkship organized to achieve goals
relevant to all medical students, regardless of their future specialty
choice. The clerkship had been in place for 8 years in 1986, and
standardized program evaluations were available for 4 years. A survey of
the diverse clinical settings used for the clerkship showed that each had
unique strengths and weaknesses but that each could meet the core goals of
the clerkship, indicating that this clerkship design would also be feasible
in a smaller department with any one or two of the settings available.
