@article{20c0bacfeaa245729b29fd438911b888,
title = "Enhancing Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Recruitment Through a Medical Student Mentorship Network: A Qualitative Study",
abstract = "Objective: There is a shortage of psychiatrists necessary to meet the clinical needs of children and adolescents. Efforts over the past decade to enhance the workforce have had a limited impact. This study sought to identify the critical components of a medical student mentorship network designed to increase recruitment into the subspecialty. Methods: The authors conducted interviews via synchronized videoconferencing of network site leaders and medical students at 14 schools throughout the USA. In addition, they analyzed verbatim transcripts using a thematic-phenomenological qualitative approach. Results: The authors interviewed thirty-eight program participants during seven focus group sessions: nine program directors and 29 medical students or graduates, a median of five participants per session. They constructed a framework consisting of two overarching domains, comprised of three themes each: (1) life cycle of a subspecialty mentorship network (Origins, Initiation, and Continuity); and (2) next steps to improve the program (Refining goals, Increasing accessibility, and Defining a path forward). Conclusion: Preliminary data have already documented the positive impact of participation in this mentorship program on medical student match rates into psychiatry. The qualitative model of this study provides a blueprint to develop, maintain, and optimize this and similar efforts aimed at increasing the child and adolescent psychiatry workforce.",
keywords = "Child and adolescent psychiatry, Mentorship, Qualitative, Recruitment",
author = "Anita Kishore and Madeline DiGiovanni and Sun, {Kevin Lee} and Alexander Kolevzon and Laelia Benoit and Andr{\'e}s Martin",
note = "Funding Information: The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF) has funded a mentorship network of medical school programs across the country that empower medical students to engage with the field of child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) through mentored relationships. The Foundation supported the first site in 2002; other schools subsequently applied for funding through a competitive request for proposals. The program expanded into the current 14-site network by 2019. Using a developmentally informed approach, the KTGF Medical Student Mentorship Program National Network (MPNN) offers educational opportunities accessible from the start of medical school []. As early as their first year, medical students engage with CAP by being paired with mentors, observing clinical encounters with youth, and conducting subspecialty-related research, among other activities []. Preliminary data suggest that these early mentored experiences have affected medical students{\textquoteright} match rates into psychiatry []. Funding Information: This research has been supported by QUALab, the Qualitative & Mixed Methods Lab, a collaboration between the Yale Child Study Center (New Haven, CT), and CESP, the Centre de recherche en Epid{\'e}miologie et Sant{\'e} des Populations (Paris, France). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, Association for Academic Psychiatry and Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry.",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1007/s40596-022-01700-6",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "124--133",
journal = "Academic Psychiatry",
issn = "1042-9670",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
number = "2",
}