Child psychiatry and the paediatrician in training

Whitehouse, William P

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1990.tb00651.x

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“…It has been suggested that gaining practical experience and training in adolescent psychiatry is an effective way for the paediatrician to acquire perspectives and skills that is helpful in hospital or community paediatrics [5]. Many models have been suggested to acquire knowledge and clinical skills by paediatricians, which include a training module in the undergraduate medical training and postgraduate training in paediatrics, integrating the child and adolescent psychiatry training program in to conferences, conducting special workshops and finally as Continuing Medical Education modules [6].…”

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Strengthening the Paediatricians Project 2: The effectiveness of a workshop to address the Priority Mental Health Disorders of adolescence in low-health related human resource countries

Russell

Nair

2010

Asia Pacific Family Medicine

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BackgroundPaediatricians can be empowered to address the Priority Mental Health Disorders at primary care level. To evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative workshop in enhancing the adolescent psychiatry knowledge among paediatricians.MethodsA 3-day, 27-hours workshop was held for paediatricians from different regions of India under the auspices of the National Adolescent Paediatric Task Force of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics. A 5-item pretest-posttest questionnaire was developed and administered at the beginning and end of the workshop to evaluate the participants' knowledge acquisition in adolescent psychiatry. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed on an intention-to-participate basis.ResultsForty-eight paediatricians completed the questionnaire. There was significant enhancement of the knowledge in understanding the phenomenology, identifying the psychopathology, diagnosing common mental disorder and selecting the psychotropic medication in the bivariate analysis. When the possible confounders of level of training in paediatrics and number of years spent as paediatrician were controlled, in addition to the above areas of adolescent psychiatry, the diagnostic ability involving multiple psychological concepts also gained significance. However, both in the bivariate and multivariate analyses, the ability to refer to appropriate psychotherapy remained unchanged after the workshop.ConclusionsThis workshop was effective in enhancing the adolescent psychiatry knowledge of paediatricians. Such workshops could strengthen paediatricians in addressing the priority mental health disorders at the primary-care level in countries with low-human resource for health as advocated by the World Health Organization. However, it remains to be seen if this acquisition of adolescent psychiatry knowledge results in enhancing their adolescent psychiatry practice.

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