Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:259-262
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
The future educational needs of psychiatrists
Sr Grinker RR
The author states the psychiatry must work at defining its boundaries as a
discipline before the question of how to educate future practitioners can
be answered. The medical student is presented with a bewildering array of
approaches to psychiatric treatment and is pressured to choose quickly. The
author calls for collaboration among the various parts of
psychiatry--social psychiatry, community psychiatry, research,
biochemistry, etc.--with other university faculties such as the humanities
and basic sciences. The goal of this collaboration would be to produce a
mature professional capable of dealing with the whole person. He also calls
for a greater emphasis on research to equip psychiatry with the necessary
knowledge to establish its role in our ever-changing contemporary society.
