Psychiatry as an internal medicine subspecialty

Internal bickering over internal subspecialty.

Postmortem medicine--an essential new new subspecialty.

used is a reflection of the use of euphemisms in medicine. Who but the gastroenterologist could see a foodstuff in a pathological specimen of stool as in redcurrant jelly or chocolate ? This last explanation may be considered the most likely, since, in dealing with unpleasantness, a natural defence mechanism is sublimation -to turn the unpleasant into something much more appealing. In other wor...

Combined internal medicine-psychiatry and family medicine-psychiatry training programs, 1999-2000: program directors' perspectives.

PURPOSE Despite tremendous growth in the number of combined-training residency programs, little is known about their directorships, financing, recruitment, curricula, and attrition rates, and the practice patterns of graduates. The authors surveyed residency program directors from combined internal medicine-psychiatry (IM/PSY) and family medicine-psychiatry (FP/PSY) programs to provide initial ...

Associations between subspecialty fellowship interest and knowledge of internal medicine: A hypothesis-generating study of internal medicine residents

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether and how medical knowledge relates to interest in subspecialty fellowship training. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between residents' interest in subspecialty fellowship training and their knowledge of internal medicine (IM). METHODS A questionnaire was emailed to 48 categorical postgraduate-year (PGY) two and three residents...

Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry.

Psychiatry is at an important juncture, with the current pharmacologically focused model having achieved modest benefits in addressing the burden of poor mental health worldwide. Although the determinants of mental health are complex, the emerging and compelling evidence for nutrition as a crucial factor in the high prevalence and incidence of mental disorders suggests that diet is as important...