Report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Commentary on an expanded psychologist role and decreased GP/psychiatrist leadership in private multidisciplinary primary mental healthcare

Abstract

Objective This opinion paper discusses certain recommendations of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention pertaining to psychology, GP and psychiatric professions. Conclusions The Committee’s recommendations may compromise patient care by undermining the ability of private sector medical specialists in providing direct clinical treatment and their role in the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. Expanding private psychological therapies without GP and private psychiatry support might increase the reliance on public hospital emergency departments and public sector mental health services for severe disorders and suicidal crises. Psychiatrists and GPs need to engage in more effective policy advocacy with the Australian Government, in order to maintain their roles in leading private sector collaborative multidisciplinary care.

Did the general practice residents well adapt to real public health prevention ——a study from the COVID-19 prevention training in China

“…To improve emergency response capabilities of public health professionals in significant public health events, some scene simulation teaching in significant public health events including investigation and management training such as situational settings, desktop deduction, situational deduction, self evaluation and teacher summary [3]. But how the training go on, there is no other real site than the real COVID-19 epidemic to exam the GP residents gainning [4,5] This study aims to explores the research on the training content, ability improvement and cognitive load of the resident at different time points (before, in and after the outbreak of the epidemic) in a real situation, to used in the study of the resident training process, and to demonstrate past and future training effects of epidemic prevention and control.…”