Teaching Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Twenty-First Century: A Reflection on the Role of Technology in Education

Shih Yee-Marie Tan Gipson; Jung Won Kim; Ah Lahm Shin; Robert Kitts; Eleni Maneta

doi:10.1016/j.chc.2016.07.004

Teaching Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Twenty-First Century: A Reflection on the Role of Technology in Education

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2017 Jan;26(1):93-103. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2016.07.004. Epub 2016 Oct 15.

Authors

Shih Yee-Marie Tan Gipson¹, Jung Won Kim², Ah Lahm Shin³, Robert Kitts⁴, Eleni Maneta²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25, Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: Marie.Gipson@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25, Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25, Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 27837945
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2016.07.004

Abstract

Technology has become an integral part of everyday life and is starting to shape the landscape of graduate medical education. This article reviews the use of technology in teaching child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) fellows, and 3 main aspects are considered. The first aspect is use of technology to enhance active learning. The second aspect covers technology and administrative tasks, and the third aspect is the development of a technology curriculum for CAP trainees. The article concludes with a brief review of some of the challenges and pitfalls that have to be considered and recommendations for future research.

Keywords: Child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship; Education; Media; Millennial learner; Technology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent Psychiatry / education*
Child Psychiatry / education*
Education, Medical, Graduate / methods*
Education, Medical, Graduate / trends
Educational Technology / methods*
Educational Technology / trends
Humans