project description
There is a strong need for consistent, objective assessment among residency rotations in order to evaluate resident preparedness. This project studies family medicine residents in the Psychiatry rotation of the University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency program. Since 2013, there has been a pretest and posttest administered to the residents in order to assess knowledge gained during the rotation. In 2019, eight improvements were made to the assessment, including automatic and standardized scoring and attitudinal and feedback questions regarding the rotation experience. By assessing the residents’ attitudes toward psychiatry and mental illness, we hope to gain insight into how the rotation experience affects residents’ views on psychiatry and mental illness as a whole.