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\" <\/p>\n
Aspiring doctors now have an excuse to binge-watch Seinfeld. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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, <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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: <\/p>\n
And that time the klutz was watching a surgery from the observation deck and accidentally dropped a Junior Mint into the patients abdominal cavity: <\/p>\n
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