52in52
Innovations in Teaching: 52in52
52in52 is a year-long didactic at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School directed by Anthony Tobia, MD in the Department of Psychiatry. The goal of the didactic is to increase Medical Knowledge of psychopathology and related issues in psychiatry through the use of film.
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When Bruce Campbell retweeted the United States of Horror Movies map, little could he have known of the impact he’d have on medical education. With the commencement of the 2014-15 academic year, medical students, residents and faculty at Rutgers’ RWJMS took a virtual road trip across the United States, using @GroovyBruce’s map as a guide. We started out in Maine and ended in California. In planning our road trip, we made sure to be in Illinois the week of Halloween and in the great Garden State of NJ for the week of February (Friday the) 13! We took 2 flights to and from Hawaii; otherwise, every state we passed through was visited by car (i.e. no skipping over states). Since we included Washington D.C. and Canada, we visited a total of 52 destinations
Beginning the week of July 1, 2014, we “visited” one state each week as listed in our itinerary and watched the movie assigned to that state. At the end of each week, we posted a blog of our travels that illustrated how the movie relates to germane teaching points in Psychiatry.