Supporting the Education of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Meeting Shortages in Mental Health Care

Is It Time to Rethink Psychiatry Residency Training? Part I: Overview

“…Another potential response is to expand the reach of individual psychiatrists, such as by being trained in how to supervise and work with advanced practice providers [ 10 ]. Solutions to expand the reach of psychiatrists and partially addressing maldistribution include collaborative care models, telepsychiatry, and providing consultations and education to primary care specialists providing mental health care [ 7 ].…”

The pedagogical challenges of teaching psychiatry residents during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Art-based education, increasingly used to train psychiatric residents, has also undergone virtual adaptation during COVID-19 9 . Virtual e-learning techniques' implementation in medical education generally-not only for psychiatry residents-was described in several articles 10,11,[17][18][19][20][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] . Such techniques include for example cloud-based cen-tralized classrooms, distance learning solutions to simulate radiology workstations, simulated daily readouts 27,32 , an online video library of patient encounters, teleconferencing, social media 10 , a flipped virtual classroom model, a social-mediabased platform to provide daily practice questions 11 , virtual wet labs, virtual-reality learning and surgical simulators 18,31 , podcasts 10 , and case conferences that combine low-fidelity simulation with gamification elements 33 .…”

“…These adjustments should, thus, be incorporated into teaching and clinical supervision to expand trainees' knowledge and enhance their competencies. As Morreale et al 25 stated, psychiatry must continue distinguishing itself to ensure that psychiatrists are sufficiently educated to practice their specialty to its full potential. Given the increased risk of neurological and psychiatric disorders during the first six months after a patient's COVID-19 diagnosis 45 , psychiatry resident education on neurological outcomes, as well as the traumatic experiences of seriously ill COVID-19 survivors, should be addressed as well.…”

Addressing Psychiatry Workforce Needs: Where Are We Now?

“…In addition to providing valuable information about what resources new training directors need, Pheister et al [ 2 ] found that other approaches to solving the workforce crisis such as telepsychiatry, collaborative or integrative care, and training of non-psychiatrists [ 3 ] have already been adopted by many of the programs they surveyed. Another important issue highlighted by the authors is the difficulty experienced by programs in recruiting and retaining faculty.…”