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Grace Thrall

Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
Box 14, Duke Regional Hospital, Durham, NC 27704
3643 North Roxboro Street, Box 14, Durham, NC 27704

Selected Publications


A Randomized Controlled Trial of Team-Based Learning Versus Lectures with Break-Out Groups on Knowledge Retention.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · October 2016 OBJECTIVE: This goal of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of team-based learning (TBL) on knowledge retention compared to traditional lectures with small break-out group discussion (teaching as usual (TAU)) using a randomized controlled trial. METHOD ... Full text Link to item Cite

A psychopharmacology course for psychiatry residents utilizing active-learning and residents-as-teachers to develop life-long learning skills.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · September 2013 OBJECTIVE: The authors describe the implementation and evaluation of a 1-year psychopharmacology course using residents-as-teachers and active-learning exercises intended to improve understanding of current psychopharmacology and its evidence base, and ski ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teaching evidence-based approaches to suicide risk assessment and prevention that enhance psychiatric training.

Journal Article Compr Psychiatry · April 2013 This report describes one in a series of National Institute of Health (NIH) supported conferences aimed at enhancing the ability of leaders of psychiatry residency training to teach research literacy and produce both clinician-scholars and physician-scient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teaching scholarly activity in psychiatric training: years 6 and 7.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · March 1, 2013 OBJECTIVE: To address nationally recognized needs for increased numbers of psychiatric clinician-scholars and physician-scientists, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) has provided a series of full-day conferenc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychopharmacology curriculum field test.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · 2009 OBJECTIVE: As part of an effort to improve psychopharmacology training in psychiatric residency programs, a committee of residency training directors and associate directors adapted an introductory schizophrenia presentation from the American Society of Cl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using and teaching evidence-based medicine: the Duke University child and adolescent psychiatry model.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · April 2005 Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is defined as a set of processes that facilitate the conscientious, explicit, and judicious integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research in making dec ... Full text Link to item Cite