Beginning Psychiatry Training Syndrome
LEWIS MERKLIN JR. M.D.1, and
RALPH B. LITTLE M.D.2
1 Chestnut Lodge, 500 West Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, Md. 20850
2 Associate in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., and Supervising and Attending Psychiatrist at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
The psychological response of the resident to his first year of psychiatric training may be characterized by temporary neurotic symptoms, psychosomatic disturbances, and symptomatic behavior. The recognition of this "beginning psychiatric training syndrome" as a transient and often valuable adaptational response may lessen its intensity and encourage both the resident and his instructors to deal with it more constructively.
