Andres Barkil-Oteo, MD, MSc, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named the associate director of the Yale Department of Psychiatry Clerkship.
The clerkship, which introduces Yale medical students to the specialty of psychiatry, is an intensive six-week experience in which students split their time between inpatient facilities and consultation services at department-affiliated hospitals and a number of diverse outpatient clinics.
As part of the clerkship, each medical student is paired with interview and writing tutors, generally members of the faculty or senior psychiatry residents. These unique opportunities for one-on-one mentorship are frequently cited as key to the program's success.
The strength of the psychiatry clerkship is demonstrated by the larger than average proportion of Yale medical students who choose to pursue further training in psychiatry following graduation. In 2014, nearly 7 percent of graduating Yale medical students matched into psychiatry residency programs, compared with 4.2 percent of graduating medical students in the United States as a whole.
Barkil-Oteo is the medical Director of Acute Care Services at Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC). He is a dedicated clinician-educator, having served as a medical student tutor, didactic lecturer, and student preceptor at CMHC as well as a faculty advisor for the student-delivered Behavioral Health Program at Haven Free Clinic.
He is a member of the Department of Psychiatry’s Medical Student Education Committee, Yale School of Medicine’s Clinical Skills Assessment Team, and Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Quality Improvement Curriculum Committee.
In addition to authoring peer-reviewed articles on teaching system-based practices, collaborative care, and High Value Care, Barkil-Oteo co-wrote a nationally recognized model curriculum for teaching collaborative care to psychiatry residents.