Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:759-763
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
Child psychiatry fellowship training: a crisis in recruitment and manpower
EV Beresin and JF Borus
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
Eighty-three percent (104 of 126) of the accredited child psychiatry
fellowships in the United States responded to a survey of current manpower
and training problems facing child psychiatry. Thirty-five percent of the
respondents were having trouble filling their classes with highly qualified
fellows, and 45% were having difficulty recruiting faculty child
psychiatrists. Other significant problems included developing faculty
interest in research, providing didactic seminars in new areas such as
developmental neurobiology and infant psychiatry, and funding fellow and
faculty positions and research. The authors examine this crisis in
manpower, recruitment, and training and suggest solutions on local and
national levels.
