MindGames Marks APA Anniversary with Special History Version
Abstract
The traditional residents’ competition pitting three residency programs against each other in the popular quiz game will immediately follow the history version of MindGames in the same location in the Moscone Center.
This year two back-to-back MindGames competitions will take place at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Residents from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, victorious at last year’s MindGames competition in New York City, pose with their trophy. They are (from left) Charles Davis, M.D., Jennifer Hadley, M.D., and Michael Falola, M.D. Competitors in this year’s competition in San Francisco will be announced in a future issue.
The first one is a special 175th Anniversary Edition of MindGames and will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 21, Moscone North. It will be followed at 2:30 p.m. in the same location by the traditional game in which three teams of residents face off to show their knowledge of psychiatry. This year’s resident competition will be the 13th in a row since MindGames was first held at APA’s Annual Meeting in 2005.
The special anniversary edition, which will focus on the history of APA and related topics, will feature three teams of prominent APA members and leaders competing with each other. These are the three teams:
The Dorothea Dixiformidables: Past APA President John McIntyre, M.D., past APA Trustee Jeffrey Geller, M.D., and past Assembly Speaker Albert Gaw, M.D.
Walk in Beauty: Past APA Assembly Speakers Theresa Miskimen, M.D., and Dale Walker, M.D., and past APA President John Talbott, M.D.
The Comeback Kids: Past APA Scientific Program Chair Geetha Jayaram, M.D., M.B.A., past President of the National Medical Association Rahn Bailey, M.D., and past Assembly Speaker and current Area 3 Trustee Roger Peele, M.D.
The three teams will compete by answering questions about APA history, notable psychiatrists, movies and other media throughout history that have involved psychiatry or psychiatrists, and important events in psychiatric history. As in the television game show “Jeopardy,” each test of knowledge is posed as an answer for which the first team that provides the correct question earns points. There will be two rounds of game play, followed by a final question.
Hosting both the anniversary edition and the resident competition is Art Walaszek, M.D., the residency training director at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry. The judges for both competitions will be past APA President Michelle Riba, M.D.; Richard Summers, M.D., senior residency advisor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania; 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 finalists will be determined at the meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training in San Diego this month and will be announced in Psychiatric News. ■
The Special 175th Anniversary Edition of MindGames will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 21, Exhibition Level, Moscone North. The traditional MindGames competition will follow at 2:30 p.m.
