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How will the emergence of DSM V impact residents currently in training, and what happens to all the DSM IV material learned during residency-will the outdated material be considered obsolete?
DSM V and Current Residents in Training
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I think we are all eagerly waiting (or dreading 🙄) the DSM V coming out. There are a lot of controversies with some of the possible changes that may take place. Some diagnosis will likely look much different and some...not so much. However, having a good understanding of the DSM IV will still be extremely useful in understanding diagnosis and the historical context of changes. It will also be helpful to understand that the DSM criteria is not gospel and your patients will not fit easily into any category whether you use the DSM IV or V.
In the future, I think the DSM will be replaced by a more neuropsychiatric/genetic/neuroscience model of categorizing mental illness. But we far from that. 🙁
In the future, I think the DSM will be replaced by a more neuropsychiatric/genetic/neuroscience model of categorizing mental illness. But we far from that. 🙁
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You will probably be some of the luckiest residents around.
Its better to be in training during the transition than in practice.
Its better to be in training during the transition than in practice.
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The most significant changes in DSM5 will be the dimensionalizing of the personality disorder chapters (of the least valid former disorders), and the fact that this will be DSM 5.0, not DSMV.
The latter point is that there will not be a twenty year gap between a DSMV and a DSMVI, but rather there will be the ability for iterative changes based on new developments, especially with regards to neuroscience and biomarkers.
There will be some other things, some shuffling of the number of criteria for things here, the renaming of autism and mental ******ation, the dissolution of substance abuse and dependence, possibly some risk-syndromes. But these are mild updates that will not require drastic paradigm shifts to understand.
The latter point is that there will not be a twenty year gap between a DSMV and a DSMVI, but rather there will be the ability for iterative changes based on new developments, especially with regards to neuroscience and biomarkers.
There will be some other things, some shuffling of the number of criteria for things here, the renaming of autism and mental ******ation, the dissolution of substance abuse and dependence, possibly some risk-syndromes. But these are mild updates that will not require drastic paradigm shifts to understand.
