title: The education of the psychiatrist as a physician.
abstract: Reasoning that the psychiatrist should function as both a medical specialist and a general physician, the author considers the legal, competency, and tranference issues this approach brings up. He then describes what has been done to implement a medical approach for faculty and residents in a psychiatric training program. The program includes seminars on the psychiatrist as a physician, a comprehensive rotation in neurology, and the application of basic medical skills on inpatient units.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy