Teaching Forensic Psychiatry to General Psychiatry Residents

Abstract

Although most general psychiatry residents will not specialize in forensic psychiatry, a working knowledge of basic concepts in forensic psychiatry should be considered an important component of general psychiatry education.

North Carolina Resident Psychiatrists Knowledge of the Commitment Statutes: Do They Stray from the Legal Standard in the Hypothetical Application of Involuntary Commitment Criteria?

“…The importance of teaching local commitment laws [6] and the right to due process in the commitment process [7] have been emphasized by leaders in residency training. The practice of superseding commitment criteria to satisfy system constraints like transportation may be stigmatizing and compromise a patient's civil liberties.…”

Law and Psychiatry Seminar: An Advanced Intervention in Interprofessional Education and Attitudinal Improvement

“…It was suggested that the collaboration between the two instructors then was a helpful role modelling [34,35]. Such a vicarious learning paradigm has been suggested as a prerequisite for the effective clinical exposure of law students and for interprofessionalism [36][37][38]. While these findings hold promise for the benefits of IPE being applied in post-licensure practice, further research will be needed to examine the direct benefits of the application of the seminar's tenets and practice.…”

On the same team: A call for increased medicolegal knowledge exchanges between forensic psychiatry and sports psychiatry

“…Navigating legal scenarios could require extensive judicial insights, which might be lacking in the developing subspeciality of sports psychiatry. With this in mind, additional training about legal conventions and forensic psychiatry will prove beneficial to sports psychiatry, like in general psychiatry ( 47 ). Recently, discussions about educational programmes have occurred and we applaud the formulation of robust curricula [e.g., ( 48 – 50 )].…”