Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:1220-1224
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
The coming crisis in funding child psychiatry training
RS McKelvey
Division of Child Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77007.
Rapid changes in health care financing and delivery systems will adversely
affect child psychiatry training. Reductions in teaching hospitals' patient
revenues and in federal support for graduate medical education have made
the development of strong academic and research programs more difficult.
Training programs must search for innovative ways to fund clinical training
if they are to survive and grow. The authors review major sources for
funding, such as state governments, future employers of trainees,
endowments, faculty practice plans, and residents paying for training, and
discuss opportunities for increasing their contributions.
