Creighton/Nebraska Residents Win 2015 MindGames Competition

Residents from Creighton University/University of Nebraska won the 2015 MindGames competition last night at APA's 2015 annual meeting in Toronto, with an exciting, come-from-behind victory after wagering 3,000 points on the final MindGames question and giving the correct answer to “Name the brain region activated when an individual is in a resting state.” (Answer: Default Mode Network).

Pictured with their trophy after the competition are (left to right) Venkata Kolli, M.D., Varun Monga, M.D., and Rohit Madan, M.D. They emerged victorious in the “Jeopardy”-like quiz competition over residents from New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)/New York State Psychiatric Institute and New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus).

As in past years, the game was hosted by renowned psychiatrist and educator Glen Gabbard, M.D. Returning as judges were past APA President Michelle Riba, M.D., and Richard Balon, M.D. Joining the game as the third judge for the first was Jerrold Rosenbaum, M.D., chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

MindGames is open to all psychiatry residency programs in the United States and Canada. The preliminary online competition begins in February, when teams of three residents take a 60-minute online test consisting of 100 multiple-choice questions. The three finalist teams that go to the annual meeting answer questions such as these from last night’s game:

What are two risk factors associated with higher risk of seasonal affective disorder?

Who wrote the book An Unquiet Mind?

What ethnic group has the lowest risk of completed suicides?

(Answers: Younger age and higher geographical latitude; Kay Jamison, Ph.D.; Hispanics).

The questions follow the ABPN Part I content outline, covering both psychiatry and neurology, with a few difficult history-of-psychiatry questions thrown in to make it interesting. The finalists are announced in April at the annual meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.>>watch video