Measurement-based Care Training Curriculum in Psychiatry Residency Programs: Four-year Implementation Experience and Future Directions.

OBJECTIVE

In 2019, the authors began implementing a measurement-based care (MBC) curriculum into two residency programs at West Virginia University (WVU) and Delaware Psychiatric Center (DPC). The authors present findings from the four-year implementation period and describe a web-based MBC course that aims to train attendings and residents across the United States (US) and abroad.

METHODS

The web-based MBC course includes four readings (the MBC instruction manual, the Standard for Clinicians' Interview in Psychiatry [SCIP] glossary, clinician-administered [CA] scales, and self-administered [SA] scales), four didactic presentations (MBC basics, psychopathology assessment, epidemiological concepts, and psychiatric measures), and four video interviews. The web-based MBC course is accessible through the WVU online continuing medical education (CME) web courses. The modified MBC psychiatry residency training curriculum includes four didactic lectures taught by MBC-trained faculty members and attendings. Residents practice using the scales during their inpatient and outpatient rotations and complete the web-based MBC course before graduation.

RESULTS

The web-based MBC course was used to train most of the attendings in the WVU and DPC residency programs. Both programs now require residents to complete the web-based MBC course before graduation. Of the 52 residents in both programs, 26 residents (50%) had completed the training at the time of writing this article.

CONCLUSION

The web-based MBC course was successfully implemented in two US residency programs and is now available for clinicians around the world to access. Free access to the SCIP scales will be granted to psychiatry residency programs implementing the MBC curriculum.