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Psychology’s Adaptation to Medical Schools, Teaching Hospitals, and Academic Medical Centers: The Role of Academic Medicine Organizations

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Psychologists in medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic medical centers are comparatively small in number, and are often undervalued and denied full practice privileges. As a profession, psychologists must therefore adapt to the realities of a physician-driven, physician-controlled environment. Psychologists’ adaptation to academic medical settings has been considered from several vantage points. An overlooked aspect of adaptation is psychologists’ knowledge of and participation in academic medicine organizations that regulate medical education and specialization. These organizations significantly influence teaching hospital and medical school environments and the psychologists and academic physicians who work in those environments. This paper focuses primarily on three academic medicine organizations, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which together shape and regulate medical education across all levels and specialties. Knowledge of the evolution and workings of these organizations is useful information for psychologists, but beyond that, such information is a framework that provides benchmarks for understanding psychology’s evolving system of education and specialization.

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angles, California, 90033

    Linda Garcia-Shelton Ph.D., M.H.S.A.

  2. New Jersey Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey

    Gerald Leventhal

  3. Department of Family medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1420 San Pablo Street (PMB-B205), Los Angeles, California

    Linda Garcia-Shelton Ph.D., M.H.S.A.

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Garcia-Shelton, L., Leventhal, G. Psychology’s Adaptation to Medical Schools, Teaching Hospitals, and Academic Medical Centers: The Role of Academic Medicine Organizations. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 12, 221–234 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-005-5741-8

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