Creating a residency didactic curriculum from scratch using online resources
Pgy-4 psych resident here just musing. As a thought experiment, if you had to build a completely new psychiatry residency program didactic curriculum from scratch, what online resources would you use?
I remember in medical school, I felt like our lectures were only mildly useful and attendance wasn’t required, so I just skimmed the lecture slides and mostly studied off of board prep material like boards and beyond, sketchy and first aid (plus anki of course). With that + learning on clerkships, I think I did ok overall.
I’m now luckily at an academic residency program that I think has excellent didactics taught by experts in specific niches, and is very thoughtfully curated so I think that’s really valuable and actually show up. However, for newer psych residencies with limited faculty or community programs where attendings don’t have a teaching obligation, why don’t they incorporate online sources like psychopharm institute, carlat report, etc? Then they could also supplement with required in person workshops/discussion like a flipped classroom model (i know, i know, that word is triggering). It overall seems more efficient to have the lectures be delivered by actual experts in a curated manner, rather than have lackluster lectures from attendings that might not want to be there.
Thoughts?