Harvard MySell Poster presentation

In April 2009, several of us in our psychiatry residency program at Harvard made posters to present in Boston at the annual Harvard MySell Day. Our posters represent a project that we each had worked on during that year of our psychiatry training. Most of our posters represented some aspect of a research project or other area of interest. About 10 of the 32 Harvard residents in our program presented. Since I am the Senior Teaching Resident in our program, my poster's focus was on an educational intervention that I created to enhance general knowledge in psychiatry as well as improve our nationalized board scores. The intervention is a curriculum that I developed which covers many subtopics of psychiatry, and the vehicle for delivery of this curriculum is a marriage of both didactic and game show formats. Each week, I provided a 2 hour course: the 1st hour I taught via lecture from a Power Point presentation and dry erase white board; the second hour, however, was via a video-projected question & answer test whereby teams of residents competed to answer the questions. After each question, the answer was displayed on the large screen, and all of the residents could discuss that topic. Well, I passed-out surveys during the course as a research tool; the feedback was very, very positive. Secondly, our board scores improved in many of the areas that were covered from these lectures, but some did not, too, in all frankness. Nonetheless, it is a novel intervention and an interesting endeavor for presenting for Harvard University.