With my pgy1 year right around the corner, I can't help but be excited for the start of a new chapter of my life. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on what I should be doing for the next month and a half. I purchased the Massachusetts handbook for psychiatry (outdated), to get a basic crash course. What can I expect during residency / what might be most challenging for a noobie to the field? I feel as if my psych history taking is abysmal. How can I improve that? One rotation I was in, I asked the patient why she was in the unit, to elicit a history, to which she responded "are you kidding, you tell me." It went downhill from there, lol. Is there a systematic approach I can use that will be universally applicable? Outpatient psych seems easier for me to obtain histories with, not so much in-patient / I'm also more intimidated. Any advice or tips would be appreciated