AJP Residents' Journal

By American Psychiatric Association Publishing

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The American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. Created by trainees for trainees and features interviews covering a wide array of topics including career exploration, personal/professional journeys, clinical practice tips, and more. Subscribe now to explore these topics with us.

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AJP Residents' Journal episodes:

02.09.2024
Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy (Part 2)
In this episode from last academic year (2022-2023), former media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews Chadrick Lane, MD on the management of psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy. They discuss general principles in management and the importance of collaborative care.
01.31.2024
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Dr. Cabaniss and Dr. Reliford
In this episode from last academic year (2022-2023), former media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews Deborah Cabaniss, MD and Aaron Reliford, MD on psychodynamic psychotherapy. They define psychodynamic psychotherapy, explain the importance of a psychodynamic formulation in treatment planning, and...
07.25.2023
Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology with Dr. David Mintz (Part 2)
In this episode, media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews David Mintz, MD on applying psychodynamic psychopharmacology into clinical practice. They review the fundamental concepts of psychodynamic psychopharmacology and discuss how to approach the engagement and maintenance phases of...
06.27.2023
Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy (Part 1)
In this episode, media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews Chadrick Lane, MD on psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy. They discuss the rates of psychiatric disorders in patients with epilepsy and explore this relationship and the importance of prompt diagnosis...
06.01.2023
Humility in Psychiatry
In this episode, media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews Adam Brenner, MD on the role of humility in psychiatry. They explore the origins and different aspects of humility, examine the potential consequences of being overconfident and lacking humility, and discuss...
03.14.2023
Journal Club - December 2022
You're invited to the first AJP-RJ journal club! The media editors get together to discuss highlights of the December 2022 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. We discuss various topics ranging from diabulimia, peducular hallucinosis, and anti-NMDA...
01.13.2023
Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology with Dr. David Mintz (Part 1)
In this episode, media editor Matthew Yung, MD interviews David Mintz, MD on treatment resistance and psychodynamic psychopharmacology. They discuss the psychological and interpersonal mechanisms of pharmacologic treatment and explore how to use psychodynamic insights to improve outcomes for patients.
11.30.2022
988 Crisis Hotline with Dr. Eric Rafla-Yuan
Media editor Nina Bihani, MD interviews Eric Rafla-Yuan, MD. Dr. Eric Rafla-Yuan is the 2021 Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an award-winning researcher in medical psychiatry, health policy, and the sociopolitical determinants of health. In...
10.14.2022
Journal Club - September 2022: Minority Mental Health and Diversity
You're invited to the first AJP-RJ journal club! The media editors get together to discuss highlights of the September 2022 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal, with Special Section theme of Minority Mental Health and Diversity. Topics...
08.04.2022
Meet the Media Editors for AY 22-23
Nina Bihani, MD, Kiersten Utter, MD, Matthew Yung, MD and Blake Novy, MD introduce themselves as the media editors for the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal for the 2022-2023 academic year. They discuss reasons for wanting to join the...
06.21.2022
Language, Hearing, and Learning Disabilities
Kelly Vittetoe, MD, Barrington Hwang, MD, and C. Melanie Schuele, PhD, discuss the intersection of mental health with learning, hearing, and language impairments. They specifically discuss the role of speech-language pathologists, differences between the educational and medical settings, how these...
04.27.2022
Transplant Psychiatry
Psychiatrist Grace Chang, MD, MPH discusses the topic of transplant psychiatry with media editor Sabina Grech, MD. Dr. Chang takes us through the transplant psychiatric assessment, major and relative contraindications to transplant, and how the presence of co-morbid psychiatric disorders...
03.07.2022
MBA in Psychiatry
Abhinav Saxena, MD, MBA, Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, and fourth-year medical student Ryan Ahmed, MBA discuss considerations on getting a Master’s in Business Administration as it pertains to psychiatrists with host Barrington Hwang, MD. They discuss the MBA in...
01.27.2022
Mental Health and Incarceration with Dr. Christine Montross
Psychiatrist and award-winning author Christine Montross, M.D. discusses with psychiatry resident Blake Novy, M.D. about the topic of mental health and incarceration. They discuss the topics of institutionalization, psychiatric considerations for detainees, and criminal justice reform. Dr. Montross's book "Waiting...
10.27.2021
Horror and Psychiatry
Blake Novy, MD and Fernando Espi Forcen, MD, currently an attending psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, discuss the horror genre, the allure of scary movies, and the psychologic role of fear. Dr. Forcen wrote the book "Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths:...
09.14.2021
Psychiatría Hispana
Nicole Kloosterman MS4, Barrington Hwang, MD, y Andrea Mendiola, MD, profesora asistente de psiquiatría en Yale, conversan sobre la cultura de la comunidad hispana y su relación con la salud mental. Específicamente, la doctora Mendiola describe su camino para llegar...
09.14.2021
Hispanic Psychiatry
Nicole Kloosterman, MS4, Barrington Hwang, MD, and Andrea Mendiola, MD, currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale, discuss culture in the Latino community and its intersection with mental health. Dr. Mendiola specifically discusses her path to psychiatry, the Hispanic...
08.23.2021
粵語 AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)
粵語 – Alice Liao, Barrington Hwang (黃品傑) MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, Eunice Yuen MD PhD (袁月敏) 從AAPI 心理健康的視角討論最近事件, 袁醫生的CHATogether 計劃(www.chatogether.org), 與其他心理健康資源。因為英文，國語，粵語版本因翻譯原因略有不同. 感謝 Linfeng Wang, Frank Qi (祁忻), Alice Liao, 袁月敏翻譯本期節目.
08.23.2021
国语/國語 AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)
国语 – Frank Qi (祁忻), Barrington Hwang (黄品杰) MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, Eunice Yuen MD PhD (袁月敏) 从AAPI 心理健康的视角讨论最近事件, 袁医生的CHATogether 计划(www.chatogether.org), 与其他心理健康资源。因为英文，国语，粤语版本因翻译原因略有不同. 感谢 Linfeng Wang, Frank Qi, Alice Liao, 袁月敏翻译本期节目. 國語 – Frank Qi (祁忻), Barrington Hwang (黃品傑) MD,...
08.23.2021
AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)
Barrington Hwang, MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, and Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, discuss recent events in the context of AAPI (Asian American & Pacific Islander) mental health, Dr. Yuen’s use of structured conversations in CHATogether to improve AAPI mental health (www.chatogether.org),...
08.10.2021
Hip-Hop Psychiatry with Dr. Akeem Sule
Blake Novy, M.D. interviews Akeem Sule, M.B.B.S. on the topics of hip hop, film, and Black Culture, as it relates to mental health. Dr. Sule is a co-founder of Hip Hop Psych, a social venture designed to bridge the gap...
07.27.2021
Meet the Media Editors for AY 21-22
Sabina Grech, MD, Blake Novy, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, introduce themselves as the media editors for the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal for the 2021-2022 academic year. They specifically discuss reasons for wanting to serve as a media...
06.22.2021
Editor-in-Chief Reflections with Matthew Edwards
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Matthew Edwards, MD, discuss Matthew’s experience as the editor-in-chief. They discuss skills you can develop with the AJP Residents’ Journal editorial board, some of Matthew’s scholarly work including Freedom House, his reasons for pursuing forensic psychiatry...
05.24.2021
Climate Effects on Mental Health
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Mikaela Miller, MD, MPH, discuss climate-related topics with Lise Van Susteren, MD. They specifically discuss reasons for going into psychiatry, the connection between climate and mental health, Dr. Van Susteren’s role as an expert witness in...
04.26.2021
Serotonin and More: Conversation with a Neuroscientist
Priya Gearin, MD, speaks with Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya, PhD, a neuroscientist who is currently conducting her postdoctoral fellowship research in Dr. Susan Dymecki's Laboratory in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. They discuss Dr. Escobedo's work studying serotonergic...
04.13.2021
Concussions in Sports Psychiatry
Barrington Hwang, MD, Raza Sagarwala, MD, and Evan Watkins discuss Concussions in Sports Psychiatry with Aaron Jeckell, MD. They specifically discuss Dr. Jeckell’s expertise in concussions, common diagnoses, where to learn more, hazing, and other relevant sports psychiatry topics.
03.28.2021
Discussion of March 2021 Issue
Priya Gearin, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, discuss highlights from the most recent issue of the AJP Residents' Journal. Listen as they review articles on SSRI-induced hypersexuality, neurosyphilis with psychosis, and more.
03.01.2021
History of Addiction
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, meet with A.J. Reid Finlayson, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM, DFABAM, MMHC. They discuss the history of addiction in the United States, Dr. Finlayson’s personal experiences with addiction and psychiatric disorders, his...
02.16.2021
NAMI and Community Psychiatry
Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Ken Duckworth, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Senior Medical Director for Behavioral Health for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts about his work with NAMI, careers in community psychiatry,...
01.31.2021
Interventional Psychiatry and Neuromodulation
Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Noah Philip, MD from Alpert Medical School of Brown University on topics in interventional psychiatry and neuromodulation including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and more....
01.18.2021
Mid-year Check In
Join Drs. Priya Gearin, MD, Barrington Hwang, MD, and Bharat Sampathi, MD, as they comment on recent events, previous podcasts, upcoming podcasts, and highlight the newest AJP Residents’ Journal Issue Call for Editors. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/journal/ajp-rj
12.21.2020
Black Mental Health II: CAP and Schools
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert McKenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about trauma in child and adolescent populations, psychiatrists in schools, and further resources for learning as it pertains to...
12.07.2020
Black Mental Health I: Advocacy and Solutions
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert McKenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about vulnerable populations at a Federally Qualified Health Center, African-American mental health, the strategic role of the psychiatrist in...
11.22.2020
Mental Health in Sports with Division 1 Collegiate Athlete, Sydney Wetterstrom
Bharat Sampathi, MD, and Priya Gearin, MD, interview Sydney Wetterstrom, a Division 1 women's volleyball player, on mental health in competitive sports. Sydney provides an athlete's perspective on mental illness and its effects on athletic performance, stigma towards mental health...
11.09.2020
Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Edwin Raffi, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Women's Mental Health on prevalence and treatment of mental illness during the perinatal period, career opportunities within perinatal and reproductive psychiatry, and more.
10.25.2020
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Barrington Hwang, MD, interviews Terako Amison, MD, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the two variants of seasonal affective disorder, proposed etiologies, treatments including light therapy, and risk factors. Seasonal affective disorder is a subtype of major depressive disorder, bipolar...
10.12.2020
Memorable Psychiatry
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, interview Jonathan Heldt, MD, at UCLA Health on how he got interested in writing, the publishing process, and his books Memorable Psychiatry, Memorable Psychopharmacology, and Memorable Neurology. Dr....
09.28.2020
Theatrical Vignettes Addressing Parent-Child Conflict
Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Rona Hu, MD, from Stanford University School of Medicine on her initiative Stanford CHIPAO (Communication Health Interactive for Parents of Adolescents and Others). We discuss her theatrical vignettes addressing parent-child conflict, mental health in immigrant families,...
09.13.2020
Salud Mental en Peru
Barrington Hwang, MD, y Eric Zabriskie, MD, conversan sobre el sistema peruano de salud mental con Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, un profesor asistente de psiquiatría en University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Específicamente, el doctor Arriola...
09.13.2020
Mental Health in Peru
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Eric Zabriskie, MD, discuss mental health care in Peru with Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Arriola Vigo specifically discusses his...
08.30.2020
Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry
Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Alyson Gorun, MD, from New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine on the practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry, the history and future of these treatment modalities, comparisons with other forms of therapy, training opportunities, and more.
08.16.2020
QTc Prolongation and Psychotropic Medications
Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Margo Funk, MD, at Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program about QTc prolongation and psychotropic medications. Dr. Funk discusses the significance of the QTc interval, methods to calculate it, and considerations for clinical practice.
08.02.2020
Homeless Psychiatry with Dr. Sheryl Fleisch
Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, interview Sheryl Fleisch, MD at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on topics related to homeless populations in psychiatry. Dr. Fleisch discusses how she has integrated outreach to this underserved population into her...
07.19.2020
Sports Psychiatry with Dr. Bettina Frankel, MD
Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Sports Psychiatrist Bettina Frankel, MD, from Northwestern University on topics in sports psychiatry including mental illness in college athletes, its effects on athletic performance, treatment options and their side effects for common diagnoses, efforts to increase...
07.05.2020
Introduction to the New Academic Year
Join Drs. Bharat Sampathi, MD, Priya Gearin, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, as they introduce themselves as the new media editors of the AJP Residents' Journal and briefly discuss upcoming podcasts and systemic racism in light of recent events.
06.16.2020
Military Psychiatry: Perspectives from Two Army Medical Officers
Aaron Wolfgang, MD and Sean Wilkes, MD discuss Military Psychiatry. 2 of 2 special episodes to go along with our June 2020 AJP-RJ release.
06.16.2020
Dispatch from the Front Lines Against COVID-19
Aaron Wolfgang, MD and Sean Wilkes, MD interview Alexander Kaplan, MD about an Army Psychiatrist's special mission during the COVID-19 crisis in NYC. 1 of 2 special episodes to go along with our June 2020 AJP-RJ release.
05.29.2020
Drug - Drug Interactions
Rachel Dillinger, MD interviews Neil Sandson, MD on important drug to drug interactions and how to get started learning this important area of clinical psychopharmacology.
04.28.2020
Lessons from the Editors
Shapir Rosenberg, MD interviews Rachel Dillinger, MD and they discuss residency during COVID-19 and lessons learned from editing the journal.
02.03.2020
Psychiatric Ethics and The Shrink Next Door Part 2
Aaron Winkler, MD continues the interview of Joe Nocera of The Shrink Next Door podcast and Dr. Mark Komrad on Psychiatric Ethics and Boundaries

What's AJP Residents' Journal about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

AJP Residents' Journal episodes:

Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy (Part 2)

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Dr. Cabaniss and Dr. Reliford

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology with Dr. David Mintz (Part 2)

Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy (Part 1)

Humility in Psychiatry

Journal Club - December 2022

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology with Dr. David Mintz (Part 1)

988 Crisis Hotline with Dr. Eric Rafla-Yuan

Journal Club - September 2022: Minority Mental Health and Diversity

Meet the Media Editors for AY 22-23

Language, Hearing, and Learning Disabilities

Transplant Psychiatry

MBA in Psychiatry

Mental Health and Incarceration with Dr. Christine Montross

Horror and Psychiatry

Psychiatría Hispana

Hispanic Psychiatry

粵語 AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)

国语/國語 AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)

AAPI Mental Health with Dr. Eunice Yuen (袁月敏)

Hip-Hop Psychiatry with Dr. Akeem Sule

Meet the Media Editors for AY 21-22

Editor-in-Chief Reflections with Matthew Edwards

Climate Effects on Mental Health

Serotonin and More: Conversation with a Neuroscientist

Concussions in Sports Psychiatry

Discussion of March 2021 Issue

History of Addiction

NAMI and Community Psychiatry

Interventional Psychiatry and Neuromodulation

Mid-year Check In

Black Mental Health II: CAP and Schools

Black Mental Health I: Advocacy and Solutions

Mental Health in Sports with Division 1 Collegiate Athlete, Sydney Wetterstrom

Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Memorable Psychiatry

Theatrical Vignettes Addressing Parent-Child Conflict

Salud Mental en Peru

Mental Health in Peru

Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry

QTc Prolongation and Psychotropic Medications

Homeless Psychiatry with Dr. Sheryl Fleisch

Sports Psychiatry with Dr. Bettina Frankel, MD

Introduction to the New Academic Year

Military Psychiatry: Perspectives from Two Army Medical Officers

Dispatch from the Front Lines Against COVID-19

Drug - Drug Interactions

Lessons from the Editors

Psychiatric Ethics and The Shrink Next Door Part 2