The retainer scheme and psychiatry in primary care

Psychiatry and primary care.

There is now almost universal recognition that primary care is the place where most mentally distressed people first present for help. However, the pace at which the health system has adapted to this reality varies greatly from country to country, depending on the amount of resource devoted to mental illness services, the way in which primary care physicians have organized their practice, and t...

Psychiatry and Primary Care

This article examines the prevalence, nature, and comorbidity of depressive disorders using DSM-111-R criteria among patients recruited from the waiting rooms of family physicians. A total of 1928 family practice patients completed a screening form including the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), and patients with elevated CES-D scores were oversampled for possible inter...

Psychiatry and Primary Care

In this month's issue, we focus on psychiatry and primary care. Many psychiatric disorders are managed in the primary care setting. Thus, the integration of psychiatric care with primary care services is critical. An article on the patient-centered medical home and mental health home models discusses improving healthcare coordination among physicians and other clinicians, providing a team-based...

Doctors' retainer scheme.

Teaching psychiatry in primary care residencies: do training directors of primary care and psychiatry see eye to eye?

OBJECTIVE This study compares the views of psychiatry residency training directors about psychiatry and mental health training in the primary care programs in their institutions with those of the primary care residency training directors. METHODS A 16-item questionnaire surveying specific areas of training and perceived adequacy of current teaching was distributed to 1,544 U.S. primary care a...