The popular sitcom Seinfeld may have finished in 1998, but its eccentric characters have found new life as a teaching aide for medical students. <\/p>\n
Professor Anthony Tobia teaches his students about psychiatric disorders by making them appraise the characters' quirks in an exercise dubbed \"Psy-feld\", which he has run as a mandatory part of his course since 2009. <\/p>\n
Third and fourth year students at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey are required to watch two episodes a week and then discuss the behaviours in each. <\/p>\n
Tobia has categorised all 180 episodes and every character in a database, nearly all of which can be used in teaching, he says. <\/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 isn't just the principal characters who have interesting minds. Tobia has cited five of Elaine's boyfriends in a paper about the themes of delusional disorder, and told the website NJ.com that the show's antagonist Newman was \"very sick\". <\/p>\n
Third year student Marlene Wang said that using a television programme brought teaching to life: In this way, it just gives you a more solid picture of the pathology rather than just giving you words. <\/p>\n
Medicine has featured in several memorable Seinfeld scenes, most notably in its 60th episode The Junior Mint in which Jerry accidentally drops a sweet inside a body cavity watch how in this clip. <\/p>\n
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