Curriculum Renewal in Child Psychiatry

Model curriculum for academic child and adolescent psychiatry training.

OBJECTIVE The United States is facing a severe shortage of academic child and adolescent psychiatrists. This article reviews a model integrated pathway to improve recruitment. METHODS The authors review training portals for research in child and adolescent psychiatry. There is a summary of a focus group discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Integrated Research Pathway in Child...

Residency curriculum in forensic psychiatry.

The authors describe the development of a curriculum in forensic psychiatry in a general psychiatric residency training program. Educational objectives for both knowledge and skills are presented. The authors detail training experiences at each level of psychiatric residency, including electives available for fourth-year residents. They encourage other training programs to share similar reports...

Twelve tips for curriculum renewal.

BACKGROUND Curriculum development in the health sciences usually entails a lengthy, in-depth review of most or all aspects of the curriculum. The review usually leads to the generation of a detailed report that is submitted to the Dean or executive committee of the faculty. Much has been written about the process of curriculum development but very little has been written about the important pro...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...