Graduate medical education is unique because it goes beyond the classroom and emphasizes clinical decision-making and experiential learning. Clinical reasoning is an essential skill clinicians must develop; yet methods of clinical reasoning education can be unstructured and vary widely. In addition, the current service environment may limit educational and mentorship opportunities important for developing clinical reasoning.

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Preparation for technically advanced procedures requires not only rigorous physical practice, but also intellectual familiarity with its various intricacies. A calm, collected, and confident state of mind is crucial for any high-stress or complex procedure, necessitating thorough mental preparedness to ensure successful procedural outcomes. Mental imagery, colloquially referred to as the “mind’s eye” is the quasi-perceptual experience of forming visual representations without environmental input.

1. Proposal: A significant challenge in the teaching of highly specialized and evolving subject matter is the potential limited available local expertise. Radiation biology, a required component of Radiation Oncology board certification, is an example of such an esoteric but essential subject, serving as a foundation for clinical Radiation Medicine. Moreover, the national Radiation Oncology Task Force has recently directed inclusion of novel and emerging topics as focus for education and research in Radiation Biology (Wallner 2014).

1)    PROPOSAL summary/abstract –We propose to create an education series, structured as an interactive, web-based platform that will assist pediatric trainees and affiliated clinicians at UCSF to develop and reinforce their psychiatric and mental health knowledge. Topics will include: screening for mental illness, conducting psychiatric assessments, differential diagnoses, intervention strategies, and treatment planning. The educational content will be built and presented by an interdisciplinary team that comprises of – psychiatry, pediatrics, developmental medicine and nursing.