Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry for the Nonpsychiatric Physician: Recruitment
SYDNEY E. PULVER M.D.1
1 Institute of the Pennsylvania, Hospital, 111 N. 49th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19139
Recruiting the nonpsychiatrist for postgraduate courses in psychiatry has been a major problem. Although feeling the need for appreciating the role of emotional factors in all illness, the nonpsychiatrist has not felt that postgraduate courses in psychiatry were tailored to this need or else has felt there were too many more important demands on his time. The author demonstrates how the former factor can be handled by involving a nonpsychiatrist in the design of the course from its beginning and how the latter factor can be met only by an expenditure of time and energy on the part of the recruiter.
