Current psychotherapy training for psychiatry residents is highly variable, but overall, residents want more psychotherapy education than they are receiving. Further research and discussion about how much psychotherapy training is feasible in an evolving field is required.

For decades, railways, trucking companies, and commercial airlines have utilized oil analysis as a diagnostic tool to prevent engine-component failures. This interesting application was developed into an undergraduate lab experiment to introduce chemistry and environmental science majors in their second to fourth year to metal analysis using flame atomic absorption spectroscopy with a non-aqueous sample matrix. Copper, lead, iron, chromium, and silver were quantified by the method of standard additions or by external calibration curves with matrix matching. Students in both environmental analysis and analytical chemistry courses used their data to assess the health of a vehicle's engine.

Far fewer residents responding to the survey reported being in psychotherapy than residents from some previous surveys. A continuing discussion of whether and how to accommodate personal psychotherapy in the training and education of psychiatry residents by psychiatry educators is warranted.

Despite the stresses of residency training, residents from a variety of programs in one geographic area report an encouraging quality of life on the MQLI. Psychiatry resident quality of life is similar to that reported in other populations of mental health professionals.

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