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Psychiatry’s Changing Role in Medical Education

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The psychiatrist of the 1980s will have a greatly expanded role in the undergraduate education of physicians. Despite the ever-present struggles for academic recognition, credibility, respect, resources, and, most important, time in the curriculum, departments of psychiatry now have significant teaching responsibilities in the four-year medical curriculum. Both content of psychiatric instruction and teaching techniques, however, are undergoing rapid change. Paradoxically, psychiatry’s strength in the medical education curriculum in the 1980s will rely, not on the teaching of clinical psychiatry, but rather, on the teaching of humanistic, holistic, person-oriented medicine. This chapter discusses the evolving role of psychiatry in medical school education by considering: first, briefly, its history; next, what in particular psychiatry is to teach and why psychiatry as a discipline is best suited to teach it; and, finally, how psychiatry can best achieve these goals for the 1980s within the constraints of the medical education environment.

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  1. Sidney Zisook
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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

    Richard C. W. Hall M.D.

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Zisook, S., Devaul, R. (1982). Psychiatry’s Changing Role in Medical Education. In: Hall, R.C.W. (eds) Psychiatry in Crisis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6687-4_12

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