A Chart-Stimulated Recall Activity to Assess Psychiatry Residents’ Treatment-Based, Clinical Reasoning Skills

Of the various types of assessment methods measuring clinical reasoning, chart-stimulated recall was rated the highest by medical education researchers on a scale measuring its ability to assess management and treatment [7]. Given the lack of published chart-stimulated recall tools for assessing general adult psychiatry residents and the complexity of modern psychiatric practice, we identified the need to develop a tool that focuses exclusively on measuring treatment-based clinical reasoning in this group of learners. [...]the residents identified areas of improvement for the tool, with some describing it as time consuming and longer than expected. (A copy of the revised chart-stimulated recall tool is available from the corresponding author upon request.) Discussion This chart-stimulated recall activity for psychiatry, focusing exclusively on treatment planning, contributes to the sparse literature on this topic.