Psychiatry in Family Practice

Characteristics of combined family practice-psychiatry residency programs.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate how family practice-psychiatry residency programs meet the challenges of rigorous accreditation demands, clinical supervision, and boundaries of practice. METHOD A 54-question survey of program directors of family practice-psychiatry residency programs outlining program demographic data, curricula, coordination, resident characteristics, integration, and overall satisfac...

Psychiatry in Medical Practice

the concepts and information it presents. Its great weakness lies in the lack of critical appraisal of the methodology of some of the data quoted. Wide-eyed speculation based on single cases are quoted with as much authority as the data of well-controlled experimental studies. Considering the fact that at least 65 per cent of patients coming to the average physician have disease syndromes initi...

Psychiatry in General Practice

Cases coming to the general practitioner and falling under psychiatry belong to 4 categories : (1) Cases which the practitioner can treat himself, 50%. (2) Cases suffering from self limiting illness, 25%. They need supervision only. (3) Cases requiring expert advice and help, 10%. A specialist is necessary for their treatment. (4) Cases which are chronic and unteratable by any known method, 15%.

Psychiatry in general practice.

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