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Characterization of Psychiatry Residency Training Programs

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Psychiatry residency training programs were characterized on four dimensions in a pilot study of seven West Coast schools. Residents and faculty rated their programs on academic versus clinical, community-based versus institution-based, private versus public practice, and biological versus psychological orientation. Faculty and residents from the same schools differed only on the academic-clinical dimension. Significant differences existed between schools on each axis. Variation in ratings on the biological-psychological axis suggests that claims to a “biopsychosocial” orientation may be too broad to be meaningful. This method of dimensional ratings appears appropriate for program assessment and deserves further development.

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  1. University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

    J. Pierre Loebel M.D. (clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences),  Douglas M. Brock M.Ed. (predoctoral research associate in the department of medical education),  Craig S. Scott Ph.D. (research associate professor in the department of medical education) & D. Daniel Hunt M.D. (associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences)

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Loebel, J.P., Brock, D.M., Scott, C.S. et al. Characterization of Psychiatry Residency Training Programs. Acad Psychiatry 14, 73–79 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341928

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