UNM School of Medicine Psychiatry Student Interest Group

05/23/2017

"You are your most important patient because we need you to be healthy. We need you to take care of America’s sick. We need you to fight for them. We need you to demand that our dysfunctional and broken system does better."
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/19/med-school-grad-therapist

Amid overwork and sleepless stress, roughly half of doctors-in-training experience depression, so it's best to be prepared.

03/15/2017

03/14/2017

The present study examined the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and depression symptoms with hospital outcome measures to explore how psychiatric factors relate to hospital length of stay (LOS).

03/13/2017

Paul Nichols would like to know if he should move out of state to receive the care he needs for a daughter who has autism.

03/13/2017

Promising new research suggests that ma*****na could be used to treat Alzheimer's, but there's a major roadblock: the federal government.

03/13/2017

It’s rare for medical students nowadays to go through training without knowing someone who uses prescription stimulants to study. The ever-popular Adderall and Concerta seem to be omnipresent on college campuses and medical schools, while prescriptions for these medications are suspiciously less...

03/01/2017

02/24/2017

Grab your ticket, pack your bags, and join us in March for a weekend at Hogwarts. As medical students, we are constantly busy and sometimes overwhelmed. This conference is not only a chance to learn more about the field of psychiatry, but also to take a weekend off from the daily grind and enjoy foo...

02/19/2017

Save the date! Registration to open soon.

01/27/2017

Medications prescribed or continued in 80% of visits

01/27/2017

Article: Toward an Evidence-Based, Operational Definition of Treatment-Resistant Depression

01/23/2017

Elevated stress hormone levels linked to stomach problems among these children, researchers say