Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wilkins, Kirsten M.
• Forester, Brent
• Conroy, Michelle
• Kirwin, Paul D. S.

Titel

The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry’s Scholars Program: A Model Program for Recruitment into Psychiatric Subspecialties

Ist Teil von

• Academic psychiatry, 2017-10, Vol.41 (5), p.688-692

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The number of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the USA is insufficient to meet the needs of a population where nearly one in five adults experience some form of mental illness [1]. A large majority of outpatient mental health care for these specialized populations is provided by non-psychiatric physicians [3] and general psychiatrists without subspecialty training [4, 5]. The 2012 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands?” projects that the growth of elderly individuals in the US population will outpace the geriatric psychiatry workforce capacity [6]. From 2006 to 2007, the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation (GMHF) funded the program.