For Residents

For Residents

What I wish I knew when I started my internship

Author:

Patricia Serrano, MD

In my first year of residency I faced a steep learning curve. I learned a lot about psychiatry, but I learned so much more about myself. If I had...

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For Residents

Strategies for preventing and detecting false-negatives in urine drug screens

Author:

Hassan I. Khidr, Mbbch, MD

Cuneyt Tegin, MD

Urine drug screening (UDS) is an important tool in emergency settings and substance abuse or pain management clinics. According to the 2015...

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For Residents

Don’t balk at using medical therapy to manage alcohol use disorder

Author:

Cornel N. Stanciu, MD

Samantha A. Gnanasegaram, MD

There is ample evidence in the medical literature, as well as clinical experience, that patients seeking help for chemical dependency benefit from...

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For Residents

Antidepressant-associated purpura: A rare familial case presentation

Author:

Shama Faheem, MD

Bruce Gimbel, MD

Samureen Munir, MD

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) have been a welcome addition to the...

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For Residents

Expanding the portfolio of the contemporary psychiatrist: The physician as arbiter of morality, normalcy, and social justice

Author:

Roya Noorishad, MD

Roya Noorishad, MD A few miles from New York City’s “Million Dollar Blocks” in Brownsville—single city blocks where the state spends more than a...

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For Residents

Don’t balk at using medical therapy to manage alcohol use disorder

Author:

Cornel N. Stanciu, MD

Samantha A. Gnanasegaram, MD

There is ample evidence in the medical literature, as well as clinical experience, that patients seeking help for chemical dependency benefit from...

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For Residents

Unspoken ethical challenges of many psychiatric consultation services

Author:

Andres Jovel, MD

A psychiatric consultation service in an academic medical center usually is a robust and busy setting. In addition to expert faculty, the service...

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For Residents

The importance of ‘delivery factors’ and ‘patient factors’ in the therapeutic alliance

Author:

Ralph H. De Similien, MD, MS, MEd

Adamma Okorafor, MD

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For Residents

Lessons learned working in the clinical trial industry

Author:

Amit Mistry, MD

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For Residents

Mentally ill and behind bars

Author:

Sarthak Misra, MD

Recently, I had the opportunity to work with members of a vulnerable population: men and women who have a mental illness and languish in jails and...

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For Residents

Don’t assume that psychiatric patients lack capacity to make decisions about care

Author:

Sahil Munjal, MD

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