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May 6, 2024 | View Online | Psychiatric News

University of Florida Takes Home MindGames Trophy

The psychiatry residency team from the University of Florida College of Medicine emerged victorious at this year’s MindGames competition at APA’s 2024 Annual Meeting. MindGames has been a popular attraction at Annual Meetings since 2007. The format was inspired by the “Jeopardy!” TV quiz show.

Gerald Richardson, M.D., Minyi Lin, M.D., and Nadia Cacodcar, M.D. outlasted the resident teams from East Carolina University and SUNY Upstate Medical University to win this year’s trivia competition.

The members of the winning team are Gerald Richardson, M.D., Minyi Lin, M.D., and Nadia Cacodcar, M.D.

They played against residents from East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine and SUNY Upstate Medical University. The players for East Carolina were William Salmon, M.D., Daniel Majarwitz, M.D., and Matthew Iandoli, D.O. The players for SUNY Upstate were Ejay Kao, M.D., Rebecca Kennedy, M.D., and Saleha Qasim, M.D.

MindGames is open to all psychiatry residency programs in the United States and Canada. The preliminary competition for this year’s game began in February, when teams of three residents took a 60-minute online qualifying exam. The questions follow the ABPN Part I content outline, covering both psychiatry and neurology, with a few difficult history-of-psychiatry questions. The finalists were the three top-scoring teams with the fastest posted times. ■