At a time when psychiatry's repertoire of successful treatment
strategies is burgeoning and the public is seeking primary medical care
with greater emphasis on humanistic issues, psychiatry has been
paradoxically losing status and trainees, partly because it has failed to
make its expertise integratable by nonpsychiatric physicians. In response
to the educational and patient care deficiencies that result, two
universities developed a teaching and clinical program that leads to
partial integration of their departments of psychiatry and internal
medicine. This collaborative approach includes a conjoint internal
medicine-behavioral medicine inpatient unit and a residency program leading
to Board eligibility in both specialties.Abstract Teaser