UTHealth Houston Takes Home MindGames Trophy

The psychiatry residency team from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) emerged victorious at this year’s MindGames competition at APA’s 2023 Annual Meeting. MindGames has been a popular attraction at Annual Meetings since 2007. The format was inspired by the “Jeopardy!” TV quiz show.

The members of the winning team were Hunter Hinman, M.D., Daniel Liaou, M.D., and Caroline McCool, M.D.

They played against residents from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and the Nova Southeastern University Orlando. The players for SUNY Downstate were Patrick Arthur, M.D., Hagar Kandel, M.B.B.Ch., and Amanda Wildstein, M.D. The players for Nova Southeastern were Michael Delgado, M.D., M.P.H., Eytan Hirsch, D.O., and Lucy Liu, M.D.

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 qualifying exam. The questions follow the ABPN Part I content outline, covering both psychiatry and neurology, with a few difficult history-of-psychiatry questions. The finalists were the three top-scoring teams with the fastest posted times. ■