UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Assessing Cultural Psychiatry Milestones Through an Objective Structured Clinical Examination
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2016-08-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Medical Education | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Culturally appropriate tools for patient assessment are needed to train psychiatric residents. An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) can be a helpful tool for evaluating trainees in the psychiatry milestones pertaining to cultural competency.
METHODS: Seventeen psychiatry residents and fellows at the University of Massachusetts participated in two small-group OSCE exercises to learn cultural interviewing using the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview. Trainee groups presented a cultural formulation and received feedback. Participants were surveyed about their comfort with cultural interviewing before and after the exercise.
RESULTS: Paired t tests (N = 16) showed that mean level of comfort with the Cultural Formulation Interview increased by a mean of 0.5 points after training (t = 3.16, df = 15, p < 01 95 % CI = 163-837).
DISCUSSION: The UMass culturally appropriate assessment OSCE enhanced psychiatric trainees' comfort with culturally appropriate interviewing using the Cultural Formulation Interview.
Keywords
Cultural competency, Objective structured clinical examination, Psychiatry milestones
DOI of Published Version
10.1007/s40596-016-0544-9
Source
Acad Psychiatry. 2016 Aug;40(4):600-3. doi: 10.1007/s40596-016-0544-9. Epub 2016 Apr 15. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
PubMed ID
27084719
Repository Citation
Padilla A, Benjamin S, Lewis-Fernandez R. (2016). Assessing Cultural Psychiatry Milestones Through an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0544-9. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/1021