Db. Brown et al., TRAINING RESIDENTS FOR COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE - GUIDELINES FOR CURRICULUM-DEVELOPMENT, Community mental health journal, 29(3), 1993, pp. 271-283
There is a critical need to recruit and retain more psychiatrists with
the required skills and interest to work with seriously mentally ill
and/or socially disadvantaged patients within organized programs in co
mmunity settings. More residency training programs having the capacity
to prepare psychiatrists for community practice can help to meet this
need. A consensus definition of the clinical, administrative, consult
ative and academic areas of contemporary community psychiatric practic
e developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists is
used to determine the goals of the training curriculum described in th
is paper. A comprehensive list of knowledge, skill, and attitude objec
tives, as well as suggestions for structuring clinical training assign
ments are provided as guidelines for curriculum development.