What is your familiarity with the current DSM-5 and are you excited to take a deeper dive into it during psychiatry residency training?

If you need to, be sure to do any research that you need to on the latest DSM manual and its history prior to your residency interviews. After being first published over 70 years ago, the DSM is now in its 5th version with the most recent coming in 2013. This is great information to share with your interviewers. You should also know that the manual contains details on the symptoms and descriptions for diagnosing each unique mental disorder and is a valuable tool for a trainee in psychiatry residency training.

"During the end of my third year of medical school, I was exposed to the DSM-5 in pretty great detail and I've really been enamored with learning all that I could over the last year. Given the overall medical complexities and unknowns in mental health diagnoses, it is amazing that more than 150 of the top researchers and clinicians in the world came together to put together the newest version of the manual and helped it to be a trusting document for mental healthcare workers worldwide."