Ward Wisdom: Psychiatry Questions for Medical Students, Written by Medical Students

This selection of practice questions is designed to help third-year medical students studying for their psychiatry shelf exam. An easy-to-read review, it contains over a hundred questions that span the range of subjects covered on the exam.

There are many books available for content review, but very few provide numerous practice questions for exam prep. This text should be used as an adjunct during a psychiatric clerkship. These are the most up-to-date high-yield questions, written by third-year medical students from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School during their own time on the wards.

The questions and answers were reviewed by fourth-year medical students, psychiatry residents, and attending psychiatrists to ensure completeness, accuracy, and relevance to the exam. Each question follows a short vignette about a situation the student might face, followed by multiple choices. On subsequent pages, explanations are provided to show why the answer is correct as well as how the alternative answers are not the best choices.

While the entire class of 2017 submitted questions, overarching credit for this learning supplement goes to Hanan Khairalla, MD; Meriam Naqvi, BA; Varsha Radhakrishnan, BS;Claire Sathe, BA, JD; Heather Wurtz, BA; Erin Zerbo, MD; and Petros Levounis, MD, MA.

Hanan Khairalla, MD is an Attending Psychiatrist practicing as an independent contractor in the state of Massacheusetts

Meriam Naqvi, BA, is a 4th year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Varsha Radhakrishnan, MD, is a first-year psychiatry resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She is a former Rutgers New Jersey Medical Student, Class of 2018.

Claire Sathe, MD, JD, is a first-year internal medicine resident at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, NY. MA. She is a former Rutgers New Jersey Medical Student, Class of 2018.

Heather Wurtz, M.D. is a first-year psychiatry resident at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. MA. She is a former Rutgers New Jersey Medical Student, Class of 2018.

Erin Zerbo, MD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Petros Levounis, MD, MA, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Chief of Service at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.