Core Competencies for Psychiatric Practice: What Clinicians Need to Know (A Report of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) - Softcover

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Stephen C. Scheiber, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School in Evanston, Illinois; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; and Executive Vice President of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. in Deerfield, Illinois. Thomas A. M. Kramer, M.D., is Director of Student Counseling and Resource Service at The University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Susan E. Adamowski, Ed.D., is Director of New Assessment Initiatives at the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. in Deerfield, Illinois.

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The practice of medicine has changed radically during the past few decades. Patients—better informed than ever—now demand more of their physicians, viewing them as partners rather than revering them as the sole decision-makers.

In this environment, nonnegotiable core competencies—ever-evolving and measured by certification, recertification, and, more recently, maintenance of certification—are more important than ever.

Written with a view to educating and certifying the next generations of psychiatrists, this groundbreaking compendium by distinguished contributors offers—for the first time—a concise look at the final product of the June 2001 Invitational Core Competencies Conference sponsored by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) as regards psychiatry. It presents a brief history of the concept of medical competence as well as an overview of how competence is defined and incorporated into certification and accreditation by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Presenting a detailed account of how the ABPN defines the six core competency categories for psychiatrists (Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communications Skills, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, and Systems-Based Practice), it also includes some informed predictions about the future role of core competencies in psychiatric practice.

Concluding with an appendix outlining the six core competencies for psychiatry, this invaluable resource will both help psychiatric residents and their faculty and training directors understand the core competencies important to the ABPN and provide practitioners with a view of what will be contained in their upcoming maintenance of certification programs now being designed.

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The practice of medicine has changed radically during the past few decades. Patients -- better informed than ever -- now demand more of their physicians, viewing them as partners rather than revering them as the sole decision-makers.

In this environment, nonnegotiable core competencies -- ever-evolving and measured by certification, recertification, and, more recently, maintenance of certification -- are more important than ever.

Written with a view to educating and certifying the next generations of psychiatrists, this groundbreaking compendium by distinguished contributors offers -- for the first time -- a concise look at the final product of the June 2001 Invitational Core Competencies Conference sponsored by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) as regards psychiatry. It presents a brief history of the concept of medical competence as well as an overview of how competence is defined and incorporated into certification and accreditation by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Presenting a detailed account of how the ABPN defines the six core competency categories for psychiatrists (Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communications Skills, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, and Systems-Based Practice), it also includes some informed predictions about the future role of core competencies in psychiatric practice.

Concluding with an appendix outlining the six core competencies for psychiatry, this invaluable resource will both help psychiatric residents and their faculty and training directors understand the core competencies important to the ABPN and provide practitioners with a view of what will be contained in their upcoming maintenance of certification programs now being designed.