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L McCurdy

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PubMed1991

Reliability of the Part II Board Certification Examination in Psychiatry: interexaminer consistency.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to examine the reliability (interexaminer consistency) of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Part II (oral) examination in psychiatry. METHOD: Grades were assigned independently by two examiners who observed the same examination in a 1-year cycle (1,422 candidates, two examinations each). The consistency between these pairs of grades (pass, condition, fail) was analyzed using a weighted kappa statistic. RESULTS: There was perfect agreement between examiners in 67% of examinations, minor disagreement in 26%, and major disagreement in 7% (weighted kappa = 0.54-0.56). CONCLUSIONS: The Part II ABPN examination demonstrates fair to good reliability as measured by interexaminer consistency. Development of more explicit grading criteria should further improve examiner agreement in future examinations.

Educational Measurement↗
PubMed1979

Lorazepam, a new benzodiazepine derivative, in the treatment of anxiety: a double-blind clinical evaluation.

Ninety-five adult outpatients suffering from moderate to severe anxiety were randomly assigned to treatment with lorazepam or placebo in a double-blind four-week study. Patients were evaluated at pretreatment and after two and four weeks of treatment using three rating scales. Lorazepam, at an average daily dose of 3.2 mg twice daily, was highly effective in relieving anxiety as documented by clinically and statistically significant differences over placebo in most of the items on all rating scales at all rating periods. No serious adverse effects were reported, and there were no adverse interactions with other medications, including digitalis and aspirin.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Studies with oral lorazepam in anxiety neurosis associated with depressive symptomatology.

Twelve studies were undertaken under a common four-week protocol to investigate the efficacy of lorazepam compared with placebo in reducing the severity of moderate to severe anxiety in 264 patients also having significant depressive symptomatology. Analysis of the results indicated that lorazepam gave generally better anxiety relief than placebo; in the majority of comparisons the differences were substantial enough to be both statistically and clinically significant. No data were obtained evidencing significant toxicity in either treatment group.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1976

Comparison of the psychiatry learning system and traditional teaching of psychiatry.

Pressures of time, changing curricula, and increased enrollment in medical schools require the development of more efficient teaching methods to replace or supplement the traditional lecture format. The faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina has developed an individualized course in basic psychiatry which can replace approximately 50 hours of lectures ordinarily delivered to students during the rotation on clinical psychiatry. The individualized course, referred to as the Psychiatry Learning System (PLS), was received by half the class during the year 1973-74, and the lecture course was delivered to the other half. These two groups were compared on several learning outcomes, including attainment of theoretical knowledge about psychiatry, observational skills, interviewing ability, and problem-solving ability. Overall performance ratings by clinical supervisors were also obtained. The PLS group scored no worse on any of the measures but statistically better on half of them than did the lecture group.

Education, Medical, Undergraduate↗