Improving Training and Systems of Care in Child and Adolescent Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Through Patient-Centered Graduate Medical Education: One Institution’s Approach

The convergence of an overall increase in pediatric behavioral health referrals, military specific factors, economic pressures, and training needs prompted the Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) CAP C-L team to consider ways in which it could enhance and improve training and services to effectively...

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Published in:Academic psychiatry 2015-08, Vol.39 (4), p.389-392
Main Authors: Lee, Paul C., Leong, Stephanie L., Egan, Kathryn J., Ellis, Nathan S., Ahmed, Iqbal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent Psychiatry - education
Adolescents
Armed forces
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child Psychiatry - education
Child psychology
Children & youth
Education, Medical, Graduate - methods
Education, Medical, Graduate - organization & administration
Educational Demand
Educational Needs
Emotional disorders
Fellowships and Scholarships - methods
Fellowships and Scholarships - organization & administration
Graduate Medical Education
Health care access
Humans
In Brief Report
Intensive care
Interviews
Medical Education
Medical students
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental health
Mood disorders
Patient-Centered Care
Patients
Pediatrics
Primary care
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - education
Psychologists
Referral and Consultation
Skills
Supervision
Teaching
Teams
Teenagers
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Summary:The convergence of an overall increase in pediatric behavioral health referrals, military specific factors, economic pressures, and training needs prompted the Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) CAP C-L team to consider ways in which it could enhance and improve training and services to effectively address these multiple demands. [...]the study identified that if graduates had no training in a specific area, then they rated that area of psychiatry as less relevant to their current work. The team provides inpatient consultation services to the pediatric intensive care, general pediatric, and family medicine teams, as well as evaluation and treatment of “boarders” and outpatient referrals for “as soon as possible” appointments (ASAPs), which consist of children with urgent psychiatric issues. Team approach focusing on spectrum of acute behavioral health care for children and PC-GME
ISSN:1042-9670
1545-7230
DOI:10.1007/s40596-015-0299-8