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  1. Looi JC, Amos A, Loi S, Bastiampillai T, Reutens S, Woon L, et al.
    Australas Psychiatry, 2024 Apr;32(2):113-117.
    PMID: 38342996 DOI: 10.1177/10398562241232749
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  2. Tasman A, Alcaron RD, Chiu HF, Herrman H, Ng CH
    Asia Pac Psychiatry, 2013 Apr;5 Suppl 1:1.
    PMID: 23857828 DOI: 10.1111/appy.12071
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  3. Hatta S
    Satisfaction on teaching in basic science is an important element for academic performance in final postgraduate examination. Basic sciences is an important subject in bridging understanding in clinical psychiatry but often poses difficulties among young postgraduate trainees, especially if they have not been exposed frequently to the topic areas like integrative neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry. Simple questionnaire regarding satisfaction on teaching was asked to 17 postgraduate candidates from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) and their MCQ paper performance was obtained to validate between satisfaction on teaching and their academic achievement. This simple descriptive study was to determine areas of difficulties and teaching satisfactory levels on basic sciences. Moderately satisfied candidates scored better on basic sciences topic compared to candidates with low and high satisfaction ((Mean, SD = 49.7 ± 4.5, 41.6 ± 5.9 and 39.6 ± 0) respectively. Recommendation avenues for improvement in the near future, especially concerning the ongoing revision course that is organized by the Department of Psychiatry, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia was briefly discussed. Keywords: satisfaction, postgraduate psychiatry, training
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  4. Palthe VW
    Malayan Medical Journal, 1933;8:133-45.
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  5. Looi JC, Allison S, Woon L
    Australas Psychiatry, 2023 Oct;31(5):659-661.
    PMID: 37424206 DOI: 10.1177/10398562231188264
    OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric cover for healthcare staffing shortfalls is increasingly common post-pandemic. We aim to provide comprehensive practical advice on providing temporary inpatient or outpatient cover as a psychiatrist, based on the authors' clinical experience and the existing research literature.

    CONCLUSIONS: There is limited peer-reviewed advice available on providing safe and effective temporary psychiatric consultant cover for patient care. We suggest a framework for reviewing the potential hazards and benefits of a temporary post, and planning for the role, guided by consideration of the following: caring for patients, supporting staff, working with peers, and understanding local healthcare systems and the local regulatory environment. Application of this reflective framework is informed by the psychiatrist's assessment of the temporary role, and consideration of the local service conditions.

    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  6. Rosdinom Razali, Hatta Sidi
    ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 2009;10(1):89-94.
    MyJurnal
    This is a model answer of Critical Review paper for Malaysian postgraduate examination in psychiatry. This model answer was used for marking the review paper for Master of Medicine (Psychiatry) and Master of Psychological Medicine, May 2009.
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  7. Deva MP
    Med J Malaysia, 1995 May;50 Suppl A:S69-71.
    PMID: 10968020
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry/education; Psychiatry/trends*
  8. Deva MP
    Med J Malaysia, 1997 Mar;52(1):99-101; quiz 102.
    PMID: 10968065
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  9. Skokauskas N, Guerrero APS, Hanson MD, Coll X, Paul M, Szatmari P, et al.
    Acad Psychiatry, 2011 Jul-Aug;35(4):249-251.
    PMID: 21804045 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.35.4.249
    BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a major development and change in educational practice that continues to have a large impact across subjects and disciplines worldwide. It would seem that child and adolescent psychiatry, because of its inherently integrative, bio-psycho-social nature and emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, would be a specialty learned optimally through PBL. Thus, there was a need to establish an international group where experiences in implementing PBL in child and adolescent psychiatry could be shared. This article reports on the first meeting and plans of the Problem-Based Learning in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Special Interest Study Group (SISG), held at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

    METHODS: Through international collaboration and information-sharing, the SISG aims to promote knowledge among Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists on PBL, to explore evaluation methods of PBL in CAP, and to discuss development of PBL-based curricula.

    RESULTS: Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a major change in education that has had a large impact across disciplines worldwide.

    CONCLUSION: The core steps in PBL are the following: presentation of the initial problem; discussion of the problem, and development of learning objectives; independent learning focused on the objectives; and discussion, exploration of new ideas, and discovery of solutions in the reconvened group. Different from the traditional teacher's role, the PBL tutor is an active facilitator who guides learners to identify issues and ways to learn, rather than a "content expert" who provides facts.
    Matched MeSH terms: Adolescent Psychiatry/education*; Adolescent Psychiatry/methods; Adolescent Psychiatry/trends; Child Psychiatry/education*; Child Psychiatry/methods; Child Psychiatry/trends
  10. Looi JC, Allison S, Woon L, Bastiampillai T
    Australas Psychiatry, 2024 Feb;32(1):55-58.
    PMID: 37903482 DOI: 10.1177/10398562231211129
    OBJECTIVE: There are many burgeoning treatments, and a large range of therapeutic options for 21st century psychiatry. This paper briefly comments upon considerations for balancing treatment to suit the patient, their illness, and their milieu.

    CONCLUSIONS: Therapeutic equipoise, for psychiatric care, is an aspiration rather than a position easily achieved. In day-to-day clinical practice, there will be unexpected demands and barriers that cannot always be accommodated or surmounted. Psychiatrists can work collaboratively with patients, carers, and colleagues in conceptualising and care-planning to avoid extremes of therapeutic hubris and despair, and to adapt evidence-based care more effectively so that it is suited to the patient and their circumstances.

    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  11. Claussen MC, Currie A, Koh Boon Yau E, Nishida M, Martínez V, Burger J, et al.
    Scand J Med Sci Sports, 2024 Apr;34(4):e14627.
    PMID: 38610076 DOI: 10.1111/sms.14627
    Sports psychiatry is a young field of medicine and psychiatry that focuses on mental health among athletes, and sports and exercise within psychiatry and mental disorders. However, the development of sports psychiatry and its fields of activity vary from region to region and are not uniform yet. Sports psychiatry and the role of sports psychiatrists have also already been discussed in the field of sports and exercise medicine, and within medical teams in competitive and elite sports. A uniform definition on sports psychiatry, its fields of activity, sports psychiatrist, and the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities (plus attitudes, eKSA+A) of the sports psychiatrist were developed as part of an International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP) Summit, as well as First International Consensus Statement on Sports Psychiatry. Three fields of activity can be distinguished within sports psychiatry: (i) mental health and disorders in competitive and elite sports, (ii) sports and exercise in prevention of and treatment for mental disorders, and (iii) mental health and sport-specific mental disorders in recreational sports. Each of these fields have its own eKSA+A. The definitions on sports psychiatry and sports psychiatrists, as well as the framework of eKSA+A in the different fields of activity of sports psychiatrists will help to unify and standardize the future development of sports psychiatry, establish a standard of service within sports psychiatry and together with the neighboring disciplines, and should be included into current, and future sports psychiatry education and training.
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry*
  12. Wan Salwina Wan Ismail, Ruzanna ZamZam, Marhani Midin, Azlin Baharudin, Hazli Zakaria, Hatta Sidi, et al.
    ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 2010;11(1):118-122.
    MyJurnal
    Objective: This study aims to report on the process of standard settings (SS) and to compare the passing rates between the norm-reference and SS methods, for OSCE in psychiatry undergraduate examination at UKM for 2009/2010 session. Methods: In the SS method, examiners were asked to imagine the performance of a minimally competent student and gave marks using a standardized check-list. The marks in particular outliers were discussed. After the first round, the examiners went through the same process again, to rate the minimally competent students independently. The median of the marks was taken as the passing mark for the particular question. The passing rate using the passing mark of 50% in the normreference method was compared to the passing rate from the passing mark obtained from the settings method. Results: For question 1, the passing rate with the norm-reference method (i.e. passing mark of 50%) was 93% (106/114) and that by the SS method was 72.8% (83/114). For question 2, the pass rate with the norm-reference method was 92% (105/114) and that by the SS method was 67.5% (77/114). Conclusion: The passing rates between the two methods showed significant differences. Although OSCE is an improvement to the undergraduate psychiatry examination in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, there were few limitations and challenges that need to be tackled for further improvement.
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  13. Subramaniam, Ponnusamy, Azlina Wati Nikmat, Shazli Ezzat Ghazali
    MyJurnal
    Satu kajian awal bagi menyaring kecelaruan psikogeriatrik di kalangan warga tua telah dijalankan. Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk menentukan peratusan kes kecelaan kognitif, strok dan kemurungan dalam sampel populasi yang berumur di antara 60-89 tahun. Seramai 40 orang subjek dan pemberi maklumat subjek di sekitar Lembah Kelang, Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor dipilih. Alat penyaringan yang digunakan dalam kajian ini ialah Psychogeriatric Assessment Scale (PAS). Psychogeriatric Assessment Scale (PAS) terdiri daripada dua bahagian iaitu laporan subjek dan laporan pemberi maklumat subjek. Laporan subjek digunakan untuk menyaring kecelaan kognitif, strok dan kemurungan. Manakala laporan pemberi maklumat subjek digunakan untuk menyaring kemerosotan kognitif, strok dan perubahan tingkah laku subjek. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan peratusan kes kecelaan kognitif (lelaki 67% kes, perempuan 64.3% kes) dan strok (lelaki 75% kes, perempuan 64.3% kes) yang tinggi di kalangan subjek lelaki dan wanita. Terdapat juga hubungan yang signifikan di antara laporan subjek dengan laporan pemberi maklumat subjek mengikut setiap skala PAS. Alat ujian psikologi PAS mampu menyaring masalah psikogeriatrik di kalangan warga tua dan ketepatan penyaringan dapat dinilai dengan data pemberi maklumat daripada alat ujian PAS. Penyaringan psikogeriatrik adalah penting untuk mengenal pasti kehadiran kecelaan fungsi kognitif dan kemurungan di kalangan warga tua pada peringkat awal.
    Matched MeSH terms: Geriatric Psychiatry
  14. Hatta Sidi, Sharifah Ezat Wan Puteh, Fairuz Nari Abdul Rahman
    MyJurnal
    Objective: To assess postgraduate candidates’ knowledge on basic sciences and to compare
    their achievement based on two years study in the Department of Psychiatry, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Methods: This is a study assessing
    areas of difficulties in basic sciences for the Malaysian postgraduate candidates sitting for
    mock MCQ examination papers in two consecutive years. Results: The candidates in both
    years failed on MCQ papers (scoring marks are only 43% and 40% for the year 2006 and
    2005 respectively), which is consistent with their final examination outcomes. The candidates in the year 2006 were much superior in neuroanatomy (percentages of median scores: 47% vs. 31%, p
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  15. Nik Ruzyanei Nik Jaafar, Hatta Sidi, Azlin Baharudin
    ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 2009;10(1):19-31.
    MyJurnal
    Objective: Critical appraisal is a process of systematically examining research evidence to assess its validity, results and relevance before using it to form a decision. A basic knowledge in statistic and epidemiology is important among postgraduate students in psychiatry to acquire the skills for appraising clinical research evidence. This is a descriptive study that attempts to look into the level of knowledge among the postgraduate psychiatry students in
    terms of statistic and epidemiology. Methods: A total of 31 postgraduate students in their second (N= 26) and third year (N=5) Master of Medicine (Psychiatry) and Master of Psychological Medicine from three different universities, namely: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Malaya and Universiti Sains Malaysia participated in this research. The participants were asked to answer 7 questions within 30 minutes. The passing mark for this
    critical review paper is set at 25 out of 50. Results: Overall, only 32.3% passed the mock critical review paper. About 67.7% of the students passed their epidemiology component and only 19.4% passed the statistic component. Conclusion: We found poor performance in basic statistics among psychiatric trainees which highlights the need for further improvement in the subject’s training.
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  16. Gill JS, Jambunathan ST, Muhsin M, Abdul Rashid R
    JUMMEC, 2005;8:61-62.
    A common practice in psychiatry when treating patients is the concurrent administration of anticholinergics along with antipsychotics, either to prevent or treat extrapyramidal syndrome reactions from occurring. However, most antipsychotics have inherent anticholinergic properties themselves. Therefore, this subtype of these patients have a higher than usual risk of developing anticholinergic side-effects, of which the central nervous manifestations can mimic psychosis, and may cloud judgement on patients' progress towards their treatment. KEYWORDS: Anticholinergics, anticholinergig toxicity, antipsychotics
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry
  17. Deva MP
    Med J Malaysia, 1980 Mar;34(3):285-8.
    PMID: 7412669
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry/education*
  18. Arumugasamy DN
    Neurosurgery, 1979 Oct;5(4):528-9.
    PMID: 534059
    Matched MeSH terms: Psychiatry/education
  19. Tai-Hwang W
    Med J Malaysia, 1974 Jun;28(4):205-7.
    PMID: 4278954
    Matched MeSH terms: Community Psychiatry*
  20. Hirota T, Guerrero A, Sartorius N, Fung D, Leventhal B, Ong SH, et al.
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2019 Feb;73(2):84-89.
    PMID: 30471156 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12800
    AIM: Data pertaining to child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) training systems are limited as extant research has mostly been derived from one-time data collection. This 5-year follow-up survey collects updated information on CAP training systems in the Far East, allowing for the tracking of system changes over the past 5 years.

    METHODS: Data were obtained from 18 countries, or functionally self-governing areas, in the Far East, 17 of which were also included in the original study. An online questionnaire was completed by leading CAP professionals in each country. Questions were expanded in the present study to capture the contents of CAP training.

    RESULTS: When compared to data from the original study, there has been progress in CAP training systems in the last 5 years. Specifically, there has been an increase in the number of countries with CAP training programs and national guidelines for the training. In addition, the number of CAP departments/divisions affiliated with academic institutions/universities has increased. Findings from 12 of 18 countries in the present study provide data on clinical contents. All informants of the present study reported the need for more child and adolescent psychiatrists and allied professionals.

    CONCLUSION: Despite progress in CAP training systems over the last 5 years, the need for more professionals in child and adolescent mental health care in all the relevant areas in this region have yet to be adequately addressed. Continued national efforts and international collaborations are imperative to developing and sustaining new CAP training systems while facilitating improvements in existing programs.

    Matched MeSH terms: Adolescent Psychiatry/education*; Adolescent Psychiatry/statistics & numerical data*; Child Psychiatry/education*; Child Psychiatry/statistics & numerical data*
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