Psychiatric residency training in the United States
Keywords:
residency training, matching, supervision
Psychiatric residency training programs in the United
States are based on the regulation of the ACGME(Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education). They basically
consist of four-year course (six-year, if child program is included), with a
variety of didactic courses as well as clinical assignments provided by
different clinical settings affiliated with the local residency program. Clinical
training opportunities are supplemented by on-call duties which require each resident
to perform an entire repertoire of full-fledged psychiatrist, with intake
assessment for the hospitalization as well as acute psychiatric coverage in the
emergency rooms. The author participated in one of the programs at the Menninger
Clinic in Kansas
in the early part of 1990s. He discussed one of his own anecdotes which depicts
potential pitfall that unexperienced psychiatric clinician might fall in.
キーワード:レジデントトレーニング、マッチング、スーパービジョン