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Record W4406774644 · doi:10.1186/s12909-024-06529-1

An approach to teaching the psychiatric interview

2025· article· en· W4406774644 on OpenAlexaffabout
Timothy Hierlihy, Andrew Latus

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Medical Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInnovations in Medical Education
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedical educationPsychologyMEDLINEMedicinePsychiatry

Abstract

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The psychiatric interview serves as the cornerstone of psychiatric practice. It is therefore essential that we find effective ways of teaching students how to conduct a psychiatric interview. The present paper arises from two faculty members at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador considering how to improve the quality of teaching of the psychiatric interview to preclerkship undergraduate medical students, before they begin the clinical portion of their training. The interview is taught in discrete pieces initially (e.g., discussing confidentiality, screening for suicidal ideation, taking a history for depressive disorders, etc.) before being assembled into a whole interview.The sessions are led by psychiatrists and residents who play the role of the patient. They use prewritten cases but can improvise to challenge or direct the students. Students receive real time feedback. The flexibility allows for students to repeat and vary their approach in response to feedback.Anonymous course evaluations showed improvement in student satisfaction with the new psychiatry clinical skills teaching. Prior to implementing the new approach student satisfaction was at 3.9/5. With the new method scores improved to 4.7/5 and 4.5/5 in the following two years. Clinical skills OSCE scores remained stable with modest improvement following implementation. The class average was 8.5 in the year prior to implementation and were 9.1, 8.6 and 8.8 in the years following. As a side benefit, the approach lent itself well to being delivered remotely so it continued to function well during the disruption resulting from COVID-19.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0030.008
Research integrity0.0030.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.406
Teacher spread0.382 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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