Finalist Resident Teams Announced for MindGames

The three institutions whose teams of residents were the finalists in this year’s MindGames competiton—the quiz show-like contest pitting residents in a test of psychiatric knowledge—are SUNY Downstate Health Science University, Brooklyn; New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine; and the University of Arizona, Tucson.

The final competition, which has become a popular attraction at the Annual Meeting, will not occur this year. Due to public health concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting cannot be held.

These are the triumphant residents for the three institutions:

MindGames is open to all psychiatry residency programs in the United States and Canada. The preliminary competition is in February, when teams of three residents take a 60-minute online test consisting of 150 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. The winners, announced earlier this year at the annual meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training in Dallas, are the three top-scoring teams with the fastest posted times. ■