Teaching emergency situations during a psychiatry residency programme using a blended learning approach: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency psychiatry is an essential component in the training of psychiatry residents who are required to make patient-centred orientation decisions. This training calls for specific knowledge as well as skills and attitudes requiring experience. Kolb introduced a theory on experiential learning which suggested that effective learners should have four types of abilities: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation. We aimed to evaluate a resident training programme that we designed for use in an emergency psychiatry setting based on the experimental learning theory.

Methods

We designed a four-step training programme for all first-year psychiatry residents: (i) theoretical teaching of psychiatric emergency kno

SUBMITTER: Salles J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8419928 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature