Integrated Care in Community Settings and Psychiatric Training

Addressing Psychiatry Workforce Needs: Where Are We Now?

“…Addressing the unmet mental health needs in the USA will also require psychiatrists to engage colleagues from outside psychiatry. We need to advocate for and ensure that the residents from primary care specialties like medicine, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology are taught about psychiatric topics and their preparedness to meet mental health needs in their practices [ 11 ]. In addition, we need to continue to increase public awareness of the psychiatric workforce deficits and its impact on the people of the USA and to harness this awareness for more effective advocacy efforts at the state and national levels.…”