Educating Other Physicians in the Provision of Psychiatric Care

• Published in: Academic psychiatry 2023-02, Vol.47 (1), p.7-9
• Main Authors: Morreale, Mary K., Balon, Richard, Coverdale, John, Aggarwal, Rashi, Beresin, Eugene V., Louie, Alan K., Guerrero, Anthony P. S., Brenner, Adam M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Curricula; Editorial; Education; Family Practice (Medicine); Graduate Medical Education; Humans; Internal Medicine; Intervention; Medical Education; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental disorders; Mental health; Physicians; Primary Health Care; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Teachers; Teaching
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-022-01735-9

[...]specific to pediatrics, residents must be able to interview patients and families on topics related to behavioral and psychosocial correlates of disease; provide behavioral and mental health care across all clinical settings; and identify, manage, co-manage, and appropriately refer patients with common behavioral and mental health issues to specialists when indicated [6]. [...]in a survey of obstetrics-gynecology program directors [14], only 19% agreed that their residents were equipped to address patients’ psychiatric needs. [19], combined family medicine and psychiatry residents designed and implemented a weekly 1-h curriculum for family medicine residents that spanned a 6-month period and included lectures with board-style review questions, movie clips, games, and group discussion alternating with “challenging” case discussions. [...]although the literature published thus far focuses on didactic-based instruction, psychiatrists cannot forget the importance of providing meaningful clinical education within the specialty, not only during medical school but also for those residents