title: Comment: the role of psychiatry in medicine.
abstract: Psychiatry shares with the rest of medicine all basic goals, assumptions, and approaches as well as many techniques. Any apparent "differences in approach" between psychiatry and general medicine arise from a confusion between the essentials and the specialized techniques and procedures developed in psychiatry. The educational task of psychiatry--to integrate relevant knowledge and skills from the behavioral sciences with the biological sciences and to operationalize a comprehensive approach to patient care--can be accomplished by the general psychiatrist through consultation and collaborative care of patients.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002321:Career Choice; D004501:Education, Medical; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation