Ward Wisdom 2023: Psychiatry Questions for Medical students, Written by Medical Students

Ward Wisdom Rutgers New Jersey Medical School: Class of 2023 Edition

This selection of over 160 questions and answers, written by 3rd-year medical students during their psychiatry clerkship, serves as a supplemental learning tool to help prepare for the psychiatry shelf examination. The question-and-answer format resembles the USMLE, and is up-to-date with DSM-V criteria. The in-depth breakdown of the answer choices following each question allows students to practice applying the wide pool of knowledge relevant to the field of psychiatry.

CHADEN NOUREDDINE, M.D., is a first-year psychiatry resident at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Beth Israel, in New York, NY. She is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2022.

RYAN BEHMER HANSEN, M.S., is a fourth-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ, Class of 2023.

ISAAC SONG, M.D., is a first-year psychiatry resident at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. He is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2022.

PAMELA JUMBO CUEVA, M.D., is a first-year internal medicine resident at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. She is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2022.

TOBI ARIYO, M.D., is a first-year psychiatry resident at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ. She is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2022.

NICOLE SCHWIDLOWSKY, M.D., is a first-year psychiatry resident at Metropolitan Hospital in New York, NY. She is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2022.

GRACE RO, M.D., is a second-year psychiatry resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. She is a graduate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Class of 2021.

PETROS LEVOUNIS, M.D., M.A., is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, as well as Associate Dean, at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Chief of Service at University Hospital in Newark, NJ.