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Robert Rohrbaugh, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Deputy Chair for Education and Career Development, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Office of International Medical Student Education, Yale School of Medicine

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Robert Rohrbaugh, MD

Mailing Address

  • Psychiatry

    300 George St

    New Haven, CT 06511-

    United States

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Research Summary

Dr. Rohrbaugh has developed clinical programs and educational programs at the interface of geropsychiatry and medicine. His research has been focused on evaluating the effect these interventions have had on patient care and on trainee education and skill development. For example, Dr. Rohrbaugh developed a psychiatry primary care clinic at VA-Connecticut to provide primary care medical services to patients with serious mental illness. He also participated on the team that evaluated this intervention and found it improved access, quality of care, and cost essentially the same as standard care. Dr. Rohrbaugh included a module on psychiatry resident education on the principles of primary care in the development of the clinic. This module was part of a national review of such interventions recently published by Dr. Rohrbaugh in 2009.

Dr. Rohrbaugh has also been interested in teaching beginning clinicians to identify data in a patient's narrative and to develop a bio-psycho-social formulation. Several publications and one book describe both teaching methods and methods to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions.

Most recently, Dr. Rohrbaugh's education interventions have been in the area of global health education for medical students and global mental health education for residents. Dr. Rohrbaugh and colleagues have described the development of the certificate in Global Medicine program and the national context in which is was developed as well as the effects that the Yale Global Mental Health program have had on the department as a whole.

Specialized Terms: Undergraduate Medical Education; Post-graduate (Residency) Education; Global Health Education

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Research Interests

Internship and Residency; Medicine; Mental Health Services; Global Health; Ethical Analysis; Psychiatry and Psychology; Health Care

Selected Publications

  • Integrated medical care for patients with serious psychiatric illness: a randomized trial.Druss BG, Rohrbaugh RM, Levinson CM, Rosenheck RA. Integrated medical care for patients with serious psychiatric illness: a randomized trial. Archives Of General Psychiatry 2001, 58: 861-8. PMID: 11545670, DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.58.9.861.
  • The VA psychiatry-primary care education initiative.Rohrbaugh RM, Felker B, Kosten T. The VA psychiatry-primary care education initiative. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal Of The American Association Of Directors Of Psychiatric Residency Training And The Association For Academic Psychiatry 2009, 33: 31-6. PMID: 19349441, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.1.31.
  • An operationalised approach to biopsychosocial formulation.Ross DA, van Schalkwyk GI, Rohrbaugh R. An operationalised approach to biopsychosocial formulation. Medical Education 2014, 48: 529. PMID: 24712947, DOI: 10.1111/medu.12448.
  • General Medicine Training in Psychiatry Residency.Annamalai A, Rohrbaugh RM, Sernyak MJ. General Medicine Training in Psychiatry Residency. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal Of The American Association Of Directors Of Psychiatric Residency Training And The Association For Academic Psychiatry 2015, 39: 437-41. PMID: 26048458, DOI: 10.1007/s40596-015-0344-7.
  • Effective Research Mentorship for Residents: Meeting the Needs of Early Career Physicians.van Schalkwyk GI, Katz RB, Resignato J, van Schalkwyk SC, Rohrbaugh RM. Effective Research Mentorship for Residents: Meeting the Needs of Early Career Physicians. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal Of The American Association Of Directors Of Psychiatric Residency Training And The Association For Academic Psychiatry 2017, 41: 326-332. PMID: 27766554, DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0625-9.
  • Health Policy and Ethics: A critical examination of values in global settingsWorthington R and Rohrbaugh, RM, “Health Policy and Ethics: A critical examination of values in global settings” Radcliffe, London. 2012
  • Structured global health programs in U.S. medical schools: a web-based review of certificates, tracks, and concentrations.Peluso MJ, Forrestel AK, Hafler JP, Rohrbaugh RM. Structured global health programs in U.S. medical schools: a web-based review of certificates, tracks, and concentrations. Academic Medicine : Journal Of The Association Of American Medical Colleges 2013, 88: 124-30. PMID: 23165271, DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182765768.
  • Impact of a global mental health program on a residency training program.Marienfeld C, Rohrbaugh RM. Impact of a global mental health program on a residency training program. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal Of The American Association Of Directors Of Psychiatric Residency Training And The Association For Academic Psychiatry 2013, 37: 276-80. PMID: 23820914, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.12070132.
  • Bidirectional Exchanges of Medical Students Between Institutional Partners in Global Health Clinical Education Programs: Putting Ethical Principles into Practice.Rohrbaugh R, Kellett A, Peluso MJ. Bidirectional Exchanges of Medical Students Between Institutional Partners in Global Health Clinical Education Programs: Putting Ethical Principles into Practice. Annals Of Global Health 2016, 82: 659-664. PMID: 28283116, DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.671.
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