The teaching of child psychiatry in U.S. medical schools: results of a survey.
The major results of this survey are that most schools have special programs in child psychiatry and that these are distinct from the adult psychiatry course. The course content involves clinical evaluation of children, information on child development and psychopathology, assigned reading, and liaison with pediatrics. Most schools have full-time psychiatrists on their faculty, and the child psychiatry course is taught by child psychiatrists; but less than 20 percent of the psychiatric faculty are child psychiatrists in a majority of the schools in the country. Finally, although evaluation by students and faculty is common in most of the schools, only slightly more than one-third of the institutions gave grades in child psychiatry and slightly fewer than one-third gave examinations in this subject.
D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D014481:United States