Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Integrating clinical and research training in child psychiatry: fifteen-year outcomes of a federally supported program

“…Although the majority of medical schools have CAP electives, fewer than 5% of medical students participate in them and the required medical student didactics in CAP are minimal [22]. Innovative approaches to increase the exposure of CAP during medical school have proven effective in raising awareness about the field [23], including its research opportunities, and in enhancing recruitment into psychiatry [24].…”

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: New Concepts and New Strategies for the Future

“…This last essay by Agrawal [24] and all of the other papers in this special collection [1,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][20][21][22][23] remind us that child and adolescent psychiatry training is not just of interest to child and adolescent psychiatrists. All psychiatrists, physicians, and most other professionals serve in roles that influence, whether directly or indirectly, the mental health of young people and adults who have had chronic conditions that began in youth.…”

“…They found a self-reported positive impact on students' clinical knowledge, empathy, and understanding of and interest in a child and adolescent psychiatry career and an academic medicine career. Himmelstein et al [9] showed that over a 17-year period, 14 US medical schools with medical student mentorship programs in child and adolescent psychiatry had higher match rates into psychiatry, compared with 13 nonparticipating US schools. Shapiro [10] described positive feedback from a novel, 2-month-duration medical student summer immersion program in child and adolescent psychiatry.…”

Making More Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists: Responding to the National Emergency in Mental Health in Children and Adolescents

“…In line with the finding that medical school may be the optimal time to engage trainees in child psychiatry and motivate them to pursue CAP training, our next set of papers describes interventions designed to identify interested students during medical school and even as undergraduates. In "Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis" [8], the authors describe their program, which included direct clinical experience working with children and families, a seminar series, involvement in scholarly work in CAP, and attending an annual conference. These programs were sponsored by the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation and were piloted in 2002, but the study compared Match rates into psychiatry before the programs' implementation to the "after" period between 2008 and 2019.…”