Am J Psychiatry 1977; 134:984-987
Copyright © 1977 by American Psychiatric Association
Teaching psychological medicine to family practice residents
ER Smarr and R Berkow
The authors describe the development of a curriculum focused on teaching
residents in family practice how to recognize and deal with the
psychological issues presented by patients and by their own reactions to
patients. They describe how teachers in a medical school's divisions of
family practice and psychosomatic and liaison psychiatry collaborated to
develop an integrated training program and the changes this program
effected in the attitudes and understanding of residents. They found that
residents in this program shifted their emphasis from a narrow view of
traditional medical diagnosis and treatment to a broader
psycholgical-biological understanding of patients.
