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Adapting and implementing ANCHOR-MH in a family medicine residency program in Somaliland

Adaptation and implementation of anchor-mh in a family medicine residency program in somaliland

The neuroscience-based ANCHOR-MH curriculum was adapted for a family medicine residency program that had previously included no psychiatry training and was made a permanent component following a positive experience.

Established in 2012, the family medicine program at Amoud University in Borama, Somaliland, is the first and only program of its kind in the country, and its curriculum had never previously included psychiatry. In 2024, the speaker was selected for the inaugural cohort of the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI) Global Ambassadors program, which aims to support individuals from different regions of the world in implementing psychiatry and neuroscience curricula, and used the 12-week ANCHOR-MH curriculum designed to integrate psychiatry into family medicine. The session describes how ANCHOR-MH was adapted for Amoud University (including classroom experiences and clinical supervision), the unique challenges encountered, and data from the first cohort, which ran from June to September 2025. Supervision of topic selection and teaching delivery was provided by an NNCI fellow and a psychiatrist from the University of Alberta, Canada. The teaching approach combined small- and large-group teaching, flipped classroom and problem-based methods with neuroscience-based instruction, using the NNCI curriculum, clinical guidelines, and neuroscience-based videos covering psychiatry topics relevant to primary care. Family medicine residents were able to apply topics such as neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology to patient assessment, treatment, and follow-up for remission, relapse, or recovery, and expressed support for neuroscience education in their feedback. Following this positive experience, the program leadership decided to make the initiative a permanent component of the program.

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