Measurement-based Care Training Curriculum in Psychiatry Residency Programs: Four-year Implementation Experience and Future Directions

Ahmed Aboraya; Daniel Elswick; James Berry; Dilip Chandran; Cheryl Hill; Wanhong Zheng; Jeremy D Hustead; Dorothy Van Oppen; Vishal Patel; Sara Berzingi; Karen Wang; Daniel Grimes; Gerard Gallucci; Dolly Mishra; Ramita Shrestha; John Justice; Paramjit Chumber; Abid Rizvi; Deep Yadava; Issaiah Wallace; Joy Parks; Tina Spence; Morsi Abdallah; Jehad Albitar; Ryan Murphy; Olwy Aboelnour; Mohamed Sakr; Richard Cadenas; Amanda Durazo; Albaraa Badawood; Luke Stover; Richard Burd; Christopher Feghali; Sunanda Mattancheril; Triet Tran; Seth Moomaw; Salwa Nubani; Venkat Mokkapati; Talha Siddiqui; Naveed Shaikh; Uzma Ansari; Abby Chainani; Krystle Mishra; Krupa Patel; Sara Perez-Pujols; Khadija Siddiqui; Sona Xavier; Emeka Boka; Jonathan Hyacinthe

Measurement-based Care Training Curriculum in Psychiatry Residency Programs: Four-year Implementation Experience and Future Directions

Innov Clin Neurosci. 2025 Jun 1;22(4-6):20-26. eCollection 2025 Apr-Jun.

Authors

Ahmed Aboraya¹, Daniel Elswick¹, James Berry¹, Dilip Chandran¹, Cheryl Hill¹, Wanhong Zheng¹, Jeremy D Hustead¹, Dorothy Van Oppen¹, Vishal Patel¹, Sara Berzingi¹, Karen Wang², Daniel Grimes³, Gerard Gallucci³, Dolly Mishra³, Ramita Shrestha³, John Justice¹, Paramjit Chumber¹, Abid Rizvi¹, Deep Yadava¹, Issaiah Wallace¹, Joy Parks¹, Tina Spence¹, Morsi Abdallah⁴, Jehad Albitar¹, Ryan Murphy¹, Olwy Aboelnour⁵, Mohamed Sakr⁵, Richard Cadenas¹, Amanda Durazo¹, Albaraa Badawood¹, Luke Stover¹, Richard Burd¹, Christopher Feghali¹, Sunanda Mattancheril¹, Triet Tran¹, Seth Moomaw¹, Salwa Nubani¹, Venkat Mokkapati³, Talha Siddiqui³, Naveed Shaikh³, Uzma Ansari³, Abby Chainani³, Krystle Mishra³, Krupa Patel³, Sara Perez-Pujols³, Khadija Siddiqui³, Sona Xavier³, Emeka Boka³, Jonathan Hyacinthe³

Affiliations

¹ Drs. Aboraya, Elswick, Berry, Chandran, Hill, Zheng, Hustead, Van Oppen, Patel, Berzingi, Justice, Chumber, Rizvi, Yadava, Wallace, Parks, Spence, Albitar, Murphy, Cadenas, Durazo, Badawood, Stover, Burd, Feghali, Mattancheril, Tran, Moomaw, and Nubani are with West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
² Dr. Wang is with the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
³ Drs. Grimes, Gallucci, Mishra, Shrestha, Mokkapati, T. Siddiqui, Shaikh, Ansari, Chainani, Mishra, Patel, Perez-Pujols, K. Siddiqui, Xavier, Boka, and Hyacinthe are with the Delaware Psychiatric Center in New Castle, Delaware.
⁴ Dr. Abdallah is with Ludenscheid Teaching Hospital in Ludenscheid, Germany.
⁵ Drs. Aboelnour and Sakr are with private practice in Cairo, Egypt.

PMID: 40786897
PMCID: PMC12333502

Abstract

Objective: In 2019, the authors began implementing a measurement-based care (MBC) curriculum into two residency programs at West Virginia University (WVU) and Delaware Psychiatric Center (DPC). The authors present findings from the four-year implementation period and describe a web-based MBC course that aims to train attendings and residents across the United States (US) and abroad.

Methods: The web-based MBC course includes four readings (the MBC instruction manual, the Standard for Clinicians' Interview in Psychiatry [SCIP] glossary, clinician-administered [CA] scales, and self-administered [SA] scales), four didactic presentations (MBC basics, psychopathology assessment, epidemiological concepts, and psychiatric measures), and four video interviews. The web-based MBC course is accessible through the WVU online continuing medical education (CME) web courses. The modified MBC psychiatry residency training curriculum includes four didactic lectures taught by MBC-trained faculty members and attendings. Residents practice using the scales during their inpatient and outpatient rotations and complete the web-based MBC course before graduation.

Results: The web-based MBC course was used to train most of the attendings in the WVU and DPC residency programs. Both programs now require residents to complete the web-based MBC course before graduation. Of the 52 residents in both programs, 26 residents (50%) had completed the training at the time of writing this article.

Conclusion: The web-based MBC course was successfully implemented in two US residency programs and is now available for clinicians around the world to access. Free access to the SCIP scales will be granted to psychiatry residency programs implementing the MBC curriculum.

Keywords: Rating scales; assessment; measurement-based care curriculum; psychopathology; web-based measurement-based care course.