Teaching Psychiatry Residents to Work at the Interface of Mental Health and Primary Care

Abstract

The authors present examples of programs educating psychiatry residents to work in integrated healthcare settings.

Perceived Educational Needs of the Integrated Care Psychiatric Consultant

“…The topics identified by the respondents in this study provide important information to guide psychiatric residency programs about how to evolve current curriculum to prepare psychiatrists for a role in integrated care [3]. Many of the identified learning needs of psychiatric consultants are consistent with previous recommendations from the psychosomatic medicine literature [9] and the emerging integrated care literature [7]. These findings support the notion that there are common key topics regularly encountered by a psychiatric consultant on an integrated care team.…”

“…Although the studies related to integrated care would argue for teaching these topics to psychiatrists interested in an integrated care career, the actual real-world educational needs for the integrated care psychiatric consultant are just starting to be defined [7]. The current study was conducted to survey psychiatrists working in real-world integrated care settings with the goal of better understanding what psychiatrists need to learn in order to work effectively within integrated care teams and settings.…”

Integrated Medicine and Psychiatry Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency Training: a Model Designed to Meet Growing Mental Health Workforce Needs

“…Although this type of integrated care is recognized as important, there is currently a paucity of evidenced-based, bestpractice recommendations on how to provide integrated preventive medical training to psychiatric trainees [9].…”

A Brief Examination of Integrated Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

“…Much has also been written about the importance of integrated care models and their impact on the delivery of mental health care [6]. Since, in light of these new initiatives, it is reasonable to expect to see changes in the landscape of our healthcare delivery system, medical educators are wondering about its effect on medical education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels [7].We therefore set out to examine how behavioral and physical health are currently integrated in undergraduate medical education, both in the classroom and during clinical rotations. …”