Model Curriculum
The AACP Model Curriculum Project was co-developed by members of the AACP with particular leadership by Sarah Vinson, Laurel Blackman, Liz Chapman and Ana Turner.
An outline of resources contained in the curriculum, along with links to access presentations, facilitator handouts and participant handouts follows:
PGY1: Overarching Topics
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Includes a PowerPoint slide presentation along with Two Cases with accompanying discussion questions to guide learners to become aware of racism and how it affects mental health. Also has a list of recommended readings/supplemental material suggestions.
Tiya Johnson, MD- Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gratis), University of Louisville
Sarah Y. Vinson, MD- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine
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Includes two PowerPoint slide presentations that describe how to promote social justice and combat structural violence and racism as a psychiatrist, with one PowerPoint geared toward treating adults and one toward treating child patients. Also includes two case studies that asks participants to calculate an Adverse Childhood Event (ACE) score. Also has a two lists of recommended readings/supplemental material suggestions, one adult-focused and the other child-focused.
Jacob Izenberg, MD- Clinical Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and San Francisco County Jail Behavioral Health and Re-Entry Services
Ruth Shim, MD- Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of California, Davis
Sarah Y. Vinson, MD- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine
Chidi Wamuo, MD- PGY2, Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
Brittny Randolph, MS4 University of Florida College of Medicine
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Includes a PowerPoint presentation with multiple videos and guiding questions related to utilizing the recovery model in mental health care. Also includes suggestions for 4 sessions for people with lived experience of mental illness to join along with recommended readings/discussion topics for each session.
Ludwig Salamanca, MD, PhD- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Includes PowerPoint presentation and two learning activities to help assess knowledge of cultural competency in mental healthcare.
Otega Edukuye, MD- Atlanta Veterans Medical Center
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Includes PowerPoint presentation along with a list of eight possible interactive activities that can be done separately or interspersed throughout the presentation. Discusses a range of agencies that provide health, mental health, and social services, both public and private (including nonprofit and for profit) with additional organizations that provide information, advocacy and other resources.
Arden D Dingle MD- Professor, Psychiatry University of Texas Rio Grand Valley School of Medicine
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Includes a PowerPoint that includes several case descriptions and guiding questions that describe the policies, economic systems, and other institutions (judicial system, schools, etc.) that have produced and maintain modern social inequities as well as health disparities, often along the lines of social categories such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, and discusses how to help patients navigate such systems.
Courtney McMickens, MD, MPH- Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Novant Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Medicine
PGY2: Acute Care Topics
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Includes two PowerPoint sessions both of which include several small group activities and discussion questions, along with a handout about epidemiology of homelessness.
Sarah McClanahan, DO- Assistant Professor, OU-Tulsa Psychiatry
Juan David Lopez, MD, MS- PGY-2, San Mateo County BHRS
Clayton Barnes, MD, MPH- San Mateo County BHRS
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture along with video and discussion questions aimed at reducing the criminalization of persons with mental illness
Michelle Joy, MD- Director of Behavioral Health Emergency Services,
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture that includes several videos and discussion questions to define team based care and review models of team based care commonly used in mental health.
Sarah McClanahan, DO- Assistant Professor, OU-Tulsa Psychiatry
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Includes a PowerPoint presentation and two small-group activities that describe the changing dynamics of inpatient hospitalizations for mental health disorders across the country and factors for high utilization of psychiatric services, along with potential interventions that reduce readmissions
Jennifer Traxler, D.O.- Assistant Professor. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dhruv Gupta, M.D.- PGY 2, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
LINKS TO TOPIC SPECIFIC MATERIALS →
PGY3: Ambulatory/Longitudinal Care Topics
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture and video with guiding discussion questions that describe the effects of low socioeconomic status, prison, and mental illness on people and society, and how they feed into one another.
Christopher Hoffman, M.D.
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Includes a highly interactive PowerPoint lecture including several learning exercises that describe recovery orientated care at multiple levels of care.
Laurel Blackman, DO, MBA- Per Diem Psychiatrist, Connecticut Valley Hospital, CT DMHAS; Clinical Preceptor, Yale and University of Saint Joseph PA Program; Board Member, American Association for Community Psychiatry
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture and interactive case discussion aimed at improving high-stakes transitions of care.
Laurel Blackman, DO, MBA- Per Diem Psychiatrist, Connecticut Valley Hospital, CT DMHAS; Clinical Preceptor, Yale and University of Saint Joseph PA Program; Board Member, American Association for Community Psychiatry
Ana Turner, MD, FAPA- Assistant Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine and Sulzbacher Center
TOPIC SPECIFIC LINKS HERE
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture with role playing and reflection activities that illustrate the principles of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) and how they are operationalized
Elizabeth Chapman MD, Psychiatrist, Bronx Behavioral Health Integration Project (BHIP), Montefiore Medical Group, Bronx, NY
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Includes a PowerPoint lecture and several activities with discussion questions that include simulations of psychosis and homelessness in order to examine various subfields of ambulatory/longitudinal care within Community Psychiatry
Ana Turner, MD, FAPA- Assistant Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine and Sulzbacher Center
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