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F J Menolascino

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PubMed1992

Training psychiatric residents in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in mentally retarded persons.

A serious shortage of psychiatrists trained to care for mentally retarded patients exists. Based on a successful program that has been in place for more than a decade, the authors offer guidelines for training psychiatric residents in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in mentally retarded persons. They describe a model curriculum and suggest ways to modify existing four-year curricula. Special diagnostic skills for working with this population, such as posing questions in concrete terms and ruling out the effects of disabilities like seizure disorders, are reviewed. Important treatment issues include knowing the side effects of neuroleptics and understanding the stages through which families and other caregivers pass in accepting a person's mental retardation.

Comorbidity↗
PubMed1992

Merging the departments of psychiatry of a private and state university: the Nebraska experience.

Medical colleges throughout the nation are being pressured to decrease the costs of medical education. In some of our smaller cities, the duplication of faculty expertise and costly technological resources at distinct but neighboring campuses has led to training costs far beyond what can be comfortably supported by either the institutions or their students. While the trend toward collaboration or mergers between identical medical departments on adjacent campuses is gaining ground, the methods required to achieve success in these ventures remain relatively uncharted. This paper provides an overview of the creation of successful merger between the departments of Psychiatry of Creighton University School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. The development of the merger from conception to completion, along with the lessons learned along the way, are offered in the hope that other medical departments may benefit.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1975

Experimental evaluation of sensorimotor patterning used with mentally retarded children.

In the present study, a sensorimotor "patterning" program used with 66 institutionalized, mentally retarded children and adolescents was evaluated. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups: (a) Experimental 1 group, which received a program of mobility exercises including patterning, creeping, and crawling; visual-motor training; and sensory stimulation exercises; (b) Experimental 2 group, which received a program of physical activity, personal attention, and the same sensory stimulation program given to the first group; or (c) Passive Control group, which provided baseline measures but which received no additional programming as part of the study. Experimental 1 group subjects improved more than subjects in the other groups in visual perception, program-related measures of mobility, and language ability. Intellectual functioning did not appear to be enhanced by the procedures, at least during the active phase of the project. The results were discussed with reference to other researchers who have failed to support the patterning approach, and some reasons were suggested for the differences between the present and past investigations.

Adolescent↗