Am J Psychiatry 1982; 139:1437-1442
Copyright © 1982 by American Psychiatric Association
A conjoint psychiatry-internal medicine program: development of a teaching and clinical model
JP Shemo, JC Ballenger, JJ Yazel and WW Spradlin
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.
