Teaching Integrated Care

• Published in: Academic psychiatry Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 422 - 424
• Main Author: Cowley, Deborah S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-08-2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent Psychiatry - education; Career Choice; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Child Psychiatry - education; Clinical Clerkship; Collaboration; Comorbidity; Curriculum; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; Education; Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Female; General Practice - education; Health facilities; Humans; In Depth Article: Commentary; Integrated delivery systems; Internship and Residency - methods; Lifelong Learning; Male; Medical Education; Medical students; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental disorders; Mental Health; Mental health care; Mortality; Needs Assessment; Patients; Physicians; Primary care; Primary Health Care; Psychiatrists; Psychiatry; Psychiatry - education; Referral and Consultation; Teachers; Teaching; United States > US; Academic Psychiatry; Mental Health System; Behavioral Health Care; Integrate Care; Psychiatry Residency
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-015-0351-8

[...]for decades primary care has been recognized as the “de facto mental health system” [8]. Collaborative care, especially for depression, has been shown in multiple studies and meta-analyses to improve access, outcomes, and costs of mental health care, thus accomplishing the “triple aim” of the US health care system [10, 11]. [...]a strong argument is to be made for requiring at least didactic education in integrated care, and preferably also clinical exposure, in every residency program. [...]ensuring adequate medical care for our patients raises the question of how we view ourselves as physicians.