[Career promotion in psychosomatic medicine].
We present a concept of career promotion in psychosomatic medicine. An analysis of the current guidelines and promotion practice indicates that both are poorly structured, not tailored to specific phases, and not sufficiently goal- and process-oriented. The career path usually reflects a classical modular model: medical specialist education paralleled with many years of psychotherapeutic education and only then a potential start in research. According to the concept presented here, career promotion already begins in medical school and continues through several intertwined phases: Information about career opportunities, development of career plans, focusing on career goals, implementation of career steps, and evaluation of career success. Goal-oriented and phase-specific career promotion requires corresponding institutional structures and processes: career promotion as an institutional quality characteristic, use of synergies through intervision in peer groups, supervision/coaching by experienced mentors in each phase of career development, as well as systematic networking on all levels. Phase-sensitive and process-oriented career development can contribute to continuous biographies (in particular for women doctors), to more efficient research, and to a more distinct positioning of psychosomatic medicine as an independent area of specialization.
Abteilung Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitäts-Spital Zürich, Culmannstrasse 8, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland. Barbara.buddeberg@psy.usz.ch
Barbara
B
Buddeberg-Fischer
Claus
C
Buddeberg
D000328:Adult; D002322:Career Mobility; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*; D013038:Specialization