Kirsten Wilkins, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Medical Student Education, Psychiatry; Executive Director of The Yale Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience, Medical Education; Integrated Care Firm Director, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
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Extensive Research Description
Back to Basics: Integration of Basic and Clinical Science in the Psychiatry Clerkship
This study compares two curricular innovations aimed at integrating basic and clinical science in the Psychiatry Clerkship: 1) a physician-scientist joining a clinician-taught Dementia lecture versus 2) an instructional video reviewing basic science concepts preceding a clinician-taught Dementia lecture.
Mental Health Self-Care in Medical Students: Barriers and Benefits to Use
This project, developed by a medical student mentee, involves a survey of all Yale medical students to assess mental and physical health care seeking, social behaviors, and barriers to self-care in medical school.
Selected Publications
- Fundamentals of Geriatric Psychiatry.Nespoli M, Wilkins K. Chapter 1. Interviewing The Older Adult. 3-14. Tampi RR, Williamson DJ, Eds. Fundamentals of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-62618-691-0.
- Clinical utility of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an inpatient geropsychiatry unit.Wilkins KM, Lund BC, McAdams JD, Yates WR. Clinical utility of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an inpatient geropsychiatry unit. American Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease And Other Dementias 2009, 24:34-9.
- Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of nondepressed psychiatric illness in elderly patients: a review of the literature.Wilkins KM, Ostroff R, Tampi RR. Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of nondepressed psychiatric illness in elderly patients: a review of the literature. Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry And Neurology 2008, 21:3-11.