Every year, nearly every psychiatrist resident will take the Psychiatry Resident In Training Examination (PRITE). The PRITE has 300 multiple choice questions that covers the following topics:

• Psychiatry Consultation
• Ethics
• Diagnostic Procedures
• Clinical Psychiatry
• Child Psychiatry including development and maturation
• Clinical Neurology
• Misc.

The test is then graded and gives feedback to that specific psychiatry resident in comparison to all of the other psychiatry residents who took the test. This will give the resident an idea of how he/she is doing compared to the rest of the psychiatry residents in term of psychiatric knowledge. Some residency programs require that the resident reach a certain benchmark of a score to progress to the next year. If the resident does not perform well, then the resident will typically have to do some academic remediation and improve his/her performance on the next PRITE exam. This is supposed to help the resident pass their psychiatric boards after graduation from the program.

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Students may wonder what the PRITE report that is given to the resident after it is graded looks like and what information is given in this report. The report breaks down the scores into 3 “Global scores” and then breaks down the questions into psychiatry subscores.

The global score categories include neurosciences, clinical neurology, and clinical psychiatry. It will show the total number of items, the raw score, and the standard score. The standard group is determined by the bell curve and is shown in the column “Mean standard scores of Peer Groups.” Typically a standard score would be 500 and typically a 600 in the standard group would be 1 standard deviation above the mean.

The report will then show how you rank in your program; first in your residency year and then among all of the residents in your program.

The next part of the report will break down the psychiatry subscores into different psychiatry topics such as epidemiology, treatment, research, diagnostic procedures, etc. This will help you understand which topics need refreshing and where to identify gaps in knowledge.

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How are the PRITE scores used?

PRITE (Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Examination) scores are one of many items that are used to assess the competency of psychiatry residents. It allows the training director compare each student on how they compare amongst the residents in their own class as well as how they compare to other psychiatry residents across the US/Canada. Some residency programs will put a student in an academic remediation program if they score low on the PRITE to help the student increase their knowledge and competency.

The scores are also used by Training directors to help adjust education to make their programs more effective in teaching psychiatric knowledge to their residents, so there are multiple ways that the PRITE reports are used by the student and the institution.

The PRITE can be an important test during psychiatric training, so it would be advisable to study for the PRITE. Here at psychQB, we have over 600 questions to help psychiatric students study and prepare for the PRITE.

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