Showdown Time! MindGames Finalists Announced

Three residency programs—from New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus), and Creighton University/University of Nebraska—are the finalists in this year’s MindGames competition. They will compete for the top prize at APA’s 2015 annual meeting in Toronto on Tuesday, May 19, in the Toronto Convention Centre in Room 106, Level 100, North Building.

The finalists were announced at the meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training in Orlando, Fla., last month. The runners-up in were teams from the University of California, San Diego; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; University of Texas at Houston; Baylor College of Medicine; State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn; University of Chicago; and New York University School of Medicine.

Now in its ninth year, MindGames tests the teams’ knowledge of medicine in general, psychiatry in particular, and patient-care issues. The competition, hosted by Glen Gabbard, M.D., has become a popular attraction at the meeting.

The three trainees who will be playing for Cornell are Akshay Lohitsa, M.D., Andrew Edelstein, M.D., and Seth Kleinerman, M.D.; for Columbia: Elizabeth Koehler, M.D., Ibrahim Abbas, M.D., Ph.D., and William Zoghbi, M.D.; and for Creighton: Venkata Kolli, M.B.B.S., Varun Monga, M.B.B.S., and Rohit Madan, M.B.B.S.

MindGames is open to all psychiatry residency programs in the United States and Canada. The preliminary competition for this year’s game began in February, when teams of three residents took a 60-minute online test consisting of 100 multiple-choice questions. The questions follow the ABPN Part I content outline, covering both psychiatry and neurology, with a few difficult history-of-psychiatry questions to make it interesting. The winners were the three top-scoring teams with the fastest posted times.

MindGames is a collaboration between APA and the American College of Psychiatrists.