Remote Telepsychiatry Workforce: a Solution to Psychiatry’s Workforce Issues

Remote Telepsychiatry Workforce: a Solution to Psychiatry’s Workforce Issues

Purpose of Review The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a remote workforce may increase access to care while reducing physician burnout. We review workforce issues and organizational and individual obstacles for implementing a telepsychiatry workforce including administrative, logistical,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Current psychiatry reports Vol. 22; no. 2; p. 8
Main Authors: Gardner, Jordan S., Plaven, Brittany E., Yellowlees, Peter, Shore, Jay H.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01-02-2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - prevention & control
Humans
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Psychiatry
Psychiatry in the Digital Age (J Shore
Quality of Life
Section Editor
Telemedicine
Topical Collection on Psychiatry in the Digital Age
Videoconferencing
Workforce
Remote workforce
Telemental health
Burnout
Telemedicine
Telepsychiatry
Workforce issues
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Purpose of Review The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a remote workforce may increase access to care while reducing physician burnout. We review workforce issues and organizational and individual obstacles for implementing a telepsychiatry workforce including administrative, logistical, and clinical considerations and offer resources for how to overcome barriers that may arise in implementing a remote workforce. Recent Findings There is an increasingly unmet demand for mental health services and a shortage in psychiatrists. Burnout may be a key factor contributing to psychiatrists working less, pursuing less acute cases, and leading to worsened outcomes for patients and the psychiatrists themselves. Telepsychiatry provides comparable patient and provider satisfaction and equal outcomes when compared with face-to-face encounters. Summary We provided 3 case examples to demonstrate psychiatrists demonstrating successful delivery of care in a range of clinic settings and workplace configurations while optimizing their quality of life and reducing their risk of burnout.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-3
content type line 23
ObjectType-Review-1
ISSN:1523-3812
1535-1645
DOI:10.1007/s11920-020-1128-7