It's official: my manuscript will be published in Academic Psychiatry!

I received the congratulatory email today from the journal Academic Psychiatry (see below) that they will publish my manuscript in their next issue! It was my 4th year senior project when I was the Senior Teaching Resident at Harvard, and it describes the curriculum that I created and taught for the residency program to improve their annual psychiatry written board exam scores.

I worked with my residency training director on the statistical analysis of the data that I collected: we had to use parametric statistics to calculate standard deviations, statistical significances, confidence intervals, one-tailed & two-tailed paired t-tests....It was a lot of work. I taught the curriculum in the late Summer of 2008; collected the data and started the analysis in the Spring of 2009. I presented it initially as an Abstract (which was accepted at Harvard), then as a Poster at Harvard Day, and now as a full text manuscript for publication.

So, from start to finish: exactly one year. I could not, however, done it without the academic support from my residency director, as well as the encouragement from my girlfriend to continue on with the long process while I was busy with graduation, moving out of state, and starting my career as a new staff psychiatrist.


HERE IS THE EMAIL FROM ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY:
Dear Dr. Vautrot, Thank you for revising your manuscript "The Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Pilot Resident-Organized & -Led Knowledge-Based Review." (APPI-AP-09-05-0064.R2‏)

We are pleased to accept this paper for publication in Academic Psychiatry.

We appreciate your interest in Academic Psychiatry. We look forward to seeing this work in print!

Best wishes, H. Jonathan Polan, M.D.Michelle Riba, M.D.Guest Editors, Special Issue "Residents as Teachers"