The Health Care Matrix Formulation: A Tool for Competency Assessment in Psychiatry Residency Training

• DOI: 10.1097/smj.0b013e3181ad55fe
• Publication Date: 2011-04-06T22:17:35Z
• Authors: Khalid I. Afzal; Doris C. Quinn; David F. Briones
• Keywords: Graduate medical education; Core competency; Patient Care

To assert the importance of use healthcare matrix formulation for competency assessment in psychiatry residency training.We present a case from our inpatient psychiatric facility and format it form matrix, which was developed at Vanderbilt University incorporating Institute Medicine 'aims' Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education 'core competencies'. We also analyze elucidate its clinical practice.The provides us with practical tool to any complex episode patient care, like one setting, allows learn shortcomings order improve.The optimal utilization this residents has an enormous implication by transforming morbidity mortality conferences into well-structured learning improvement format.