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Item Impact of COVID-19 on Post Graduate Medical Education and Training(BMC, 2021-08-13) Enujioke, Sharon; McBrayer, Kimberly; Soe, Katherine; Imburgia, Teresa; Robbins, Cynthia; School of Social WorkPurpose: The novel Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) has had a significant impact worldwide that led to changes in healthcare. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on trainee’s mental health and educational preparedness.Methods: Trainees at the Indiana University School of Medicine were surveyed regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their training. Using a Likert scale, participants were asked questions pertaining to educational preparedness, mental health, and clinical work during the pandemic. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 27. The study was approved as exempt by the Institutional review Board (IRB). Results: 324 of the 1204 trainees responded to the survey. The respondents were 76% white with an equal distribution of males and females. A majority of the respondents were first year residents with an equal distribution of second, third, and fourth year residents. Twenty-three percent of respondents were in a procedural residency or fellowship program. Better perceived educational preparedness was associated with an improved home-work balance during COVID-19 (β=0.506, p<0.0001) and having a department that advocated/supported focus on mental health during COVID-19 (β=0.177, p<0.0001). Worse perceived educational preparedness was associated with being in procedural vs. non-procedural dominant training program (β=-0.122, p=0.01). Conclusion: COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the training experience of residents and fellows. Departmental support increased mental well-being and perceived education preparedness in trainees. Trainees that felt they had a better home-work life balance had better educational preparedness compared to their peers. Also, trainees in procedural programs had less educational preparedness compared to their peers in non-procedural programs. This study highlights the importance for programs to find avenues to increase educational preparedness in their trainees while being attuned to the mental health of their trainees.Item Psychiatric Treatment and Management of Psychiatric Comorbidities of Movement Disorders(Elsevier, 2017) Walsh, Kelda Harris; Soe, Katherine; Sarawgi, Shivali; Psychiatry, School of MedicinePediatric movement disorders may present with psychiatric symptoms at many points during the course of the disease. For the relatively common pediatric movement disorder, Tourette syndrome, psychiatric comorbidities are well-described and treatment is well-studied. Treating these comorbidities may be more effective than treating the movements themselves. For more uncommon movement disorders, such as juvenile-onset Huntington disease, treatment of psychiatric comorbidities is not well-characterized, and best practice recommendations are not available. For the least common movement disorders, such as childhood neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation, psychiatric features may be nonspecific, so that underlying diagnosis may be apparent only after recognition of other symptoms. However, psychiatric medication, psychotherapy, and psychosocial support for these disorders may prove helpful to many children and adolescents.