Five things worth knowing,
before your first patient.

What arrives each morning

1. Psychiatric research article

   One paper from the last one to three months — AJP, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, World Psychiatry — summarized in plain language, with an explicit "why it matters clinically."

2. A second paper — rotating

   Most days this alternates between something from outside psychiatry — NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, chosen because it connects back: metabolic and cardiac effects of psychotropics, medical comorbidity, brain–body links — and a psychotherapy process or outcome paper. About once a week it's a landmark trial instead, from 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know.

3. Psychiatric fact

   Aimed at a senior resident, not board-review trivia. Pharmacokinetic subtleties, augmentation strategy, monitoring thresholds and the reasoning behind them — the nuance that actually changes management.

4. Psychotherapy teaching pearl

   Weighted toward psychodynamic technique, because this program is. Projective identification and containment, enactments, rupture-and-repair, TFP's clarification–confrontation–interpretation sequence — each with a concrete vignette showing the technique and the reasoning behind it.

5. In the news

   Two bullets on what's actually moving in the field — a regulatory decision, a guideline change, a shift in policy or public-health data — each with why it matters to psychiatry and a link to the source.