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Downsizing Psychiatric Residency Programs

A Pilot Study

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Under the varied pressures of decreasing recruitment of American medical school graduates into psychiatry, the thrust of health care policymakers to decrease the production of specialist physicians, and financial cutbacks for training by hospitals, universities, and governments at all levels, many psychiatric training programs are considering downsizing or have already implemented plans to do so. The authors describe the motivations, early experiences, anticipated concerns, and thoughts regarding downsizing obtained from interviews or questionnaires provided by 17 programs in 1993. On the basis of the authors’ experiences, some recommendations are offered for the many programs likely to deal with this issue in the future.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2400 Tucker, N.E., Albuquerque, NM, 87131-5326, USA

    Joel Yager M.D. (professor and vice chair for education)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Vivien Burt M.D., Ph.D. (professor of clinical psychiatry and medical director)

  3. Mental Health Clinic, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, USA

    Vivien Burt M.D., Ph.D. (professor of clinical psychiatry and medical director)

  4. Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA

    Paul C. Mohl M.D. (professor and director of residency training)

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Correspondence to Joel Yager M.D..

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Yager, J., Burt, V. & Mohl, P.C. Downsizing Psychiatric Residency Programs. Acad Psychiatry 22, 127–134 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341914

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