Finalists Announced for 2018 MindGames at Annual Meeting

Three residency programs—from East Carolina University, Duke University, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham—are the finalist teams in this year’s MindGames competition. They will compete for the top prize at APA’s 2018 Annual Meeting in New York.

David Hathcox

The finalists were announced at the meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) in March.

Now in its 12th year, MindGames tests the teams’ knowledge of medicine in general, psychiatry in particular, and patient-care issues.

The trainees representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham are Michael Falola, M.D., M.P.H., Charles Davis, M.D., and Jennifer Hadley, M.D.; for Duke University: Erik Larsson, M.D., Alexandra Bey, M.D., Ph.D., and Paul Riordan, M.D.; and for East Carolina University: Vikas Gupta, M.D., M.P.H., Rachel Gooding, M.D., and Roopma Wadhwa, M.D.

The moderator and host of MindGames will be Art Walaszek, M.D., director of psychiatry training at the University of Wisconsin. Serving as judges will be past APA President Michelle Riba, M.D.; Richard Balon, M.D., director of psychiatry residency training at Wayne State University; and Marcy Verduin, M.D., assistant dean for students at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.

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. ■