The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic thrust health care professionals around the globe to the frontlines to care for those affected by this medical crisis. While many surgical and procedural medical subspecialties experienced drastic declines in patient visits during this time, the demand for psychiatric services was more stable. In response to statewide stay at home orders, third-year residents in the psychiatry outpatient clinic described in this article quickly transitioned to telepsychiatry to continue providing care to their patients. While providing care from home, these residents experienced a number of challenges that serve as important lessons for enhancing competence in telepsychiatry services.

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Binge eating disorder (BED) as well as individual subthreshold binge eating symptoms are related to deleterious physical and socioemotional outcomes among adolescents. The present study examined the prevalence of specific binge eating behaviors among a sample of primarily non-Hispanic Black outpatients presenting to weight management and endocrinology clinics. Analyses are based on 103 adolescents (69.9% female, 66.9% non-Hispanic Black) who endorsed one or more binge eating symptoms on a nonstandardized clinical assessment patterned after Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition ( DSM-5) criteria. The most commonly endorsed symptom was eating in excess of what is considered normal (71.8%), while least commonly endorsed symptoms included guilt, distress, and embarrassment due to overeating (17.5% to 26.2%). More than half of the participants endorsed multiple specific binge eating symptoms. The level of subthreshold symptomatology reported underscores the importance of developmental and cultural tailoring of prevention and intervention efforts to address these behaviors as a means of curbing clinical-level onset of BED.

Born on the eve of the Civil War, community colleges were designed to provide access to higher education for the masses. Community colleges, also referred to as "the people's college," were a radical departure from the traditional institutions of higher education. One significant difference, compared to other institutions of higher education, is that community colleges enroll a more diverse student population. However, the very students community colleges were designed to benefit, students from low socio-economic backgrounds, minorities, and non-traditional students, are faring the worst. There is mounting evidence that the gap between access and completion continues to grow. The rate of students enrolling in community college has outpaced students enrolling in fouryear institutions over the past half-century; however, the rate of students graduating with associate degrees and/or transferring-out to four-year institutions has steadily declined.This study explored timing of new student orientation as a potential factor that has contributed to this phenomenon and discussed how the very structure and policies designed to make higher education accessible to the masses may be the primary contributing factor to the low retention rate. The admissions records of 461 first-time, first-year students attending a community college located in New England, were examined. Using orientation attendance as an independent variable, the date of orientation attendance was categorized into three phases; early, standard, and late.