title: Psychiatric residency training in the consideration of alternatives to hospitalization.
abstract: Residency training should prepare one to accommodate to the current rapid changes in the political, economic, and legal climate as well as to biologic developments in psychiatry. One goal of training should be to remain open-minded to creative treatment approaches and disposition options for a wide variety of psychiatric patients.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012112:Residential Facilities; D012931:Social Environment