TIME Newsfeed society Medical Students Now Watch Seinfeld to Learn About Psychiatric Disorders From "The Junior Mint" episode, pictured: (upper left) Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer. Spike Nannarello/NBC/NBCU Photo BankGetty Images An exercise called "Psy-feld"

Aspiring doctors now have an excuse to binge-watch Seinfeld.

At Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia is teaching third and fourth-year medical students in the hospitals psychiatric rotation about psychiatric disorders through the hit TV shows eccentric characters an exercise dubbed Psy-feld, NJ.com reports.

The students are required to watch two repeat episodes of the show a week on TBS and come to class ready to discuss the psychopathology demonstrated in each one. As Tobia told NJ.com,

When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerrys obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramers schizoid traits, with Elaines inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.

It reminds us of the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer (Michael Richards) acted out the symptoms of gonorrhea so medical students could practice their diagnostic skills:

And that time the klutz was watching a surgery from the observation deck and accidentally dropped a Junior Mint into the patients abdominal cavity:

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Medical Students Now Watch Seinfeld to Learn About Psychiatric Disorders