This project offers a great opportunity for students to participate in a research project from its inception. The project objective is to determine what symptoms of psychiatric disorders lead to emergency department presentation and to set standards for evaluation and treatment of these emergency presentations. Students can expect to experience a variety of clinical and performance improvement research experiences, including:
The project will attempt to set benchmarks for major performance indicators such as time to psychiatric assessment, minimum medical assessment and recidivism. The project is expected to lead to a number of peer reviewed articles. An apt student may have the opportunity to coauthor reviews, perform peer review for journals and other scientific writing and editorial activities.
The mentor is a former president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (http://www.emergencypsychiatry.org) and the current vice president of the International Association for Emergency Psychiatry. He is one of the founding members of a psychiatric emergency research collaboration modeled on EMNet (Emergency Medicine Network, http://www.emnet-usa.org/ ). Members of this consortium include Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital and others.
Preceptor Information |
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| Name: | Michael Allen |
| Department: | Psychiatry |
| Location: | University Hospital |
| Fitzsimmons Campus | |
| Contact: | 303-315-9883 |
| michael.allen@uchsc.edu | |
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Position Information |
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| Openings | 1 |
| Funding: | No |