Finalists for 2016 MindGames Announced: Game On!

Three residency programs—from Columbia University, Yale University, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)—are the finalist teams in this year’s MindGames competition.

They will compete for the top prize at APA’s 2016 Annual Meeting in Atlanta on Tuesday, May 17, at 5:15 p.m. in Room B206 at the Georgia World Congress Center

The finalists were announced at the meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training in Austin, Texas, last month. The runner-up teams were from Montefiore Medical Center, East Carolina University, Jackson Memorial Hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Washington University St. Louis, St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the University of Virginia.

Now in its 10th 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 Columbia are Anthony Zhoghbi, M.D., Gabriella Rothberger, M.D., and Neil Gray, M.D.; for Yale: Katernine Blackwell, M.D., Chad Lane, M.D., and Javier Ballester, M.D.; and for UTHSCSA: Ella Cleaves, M.D., Kimberly Benavente, M.D., and Michael Miller, M.D.

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 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 to make it interesting. The winners were the three top-scoring teams with the fastest posted times. ■