title: An experiment in graduate medical education: combined residency training in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
abstract: As an experiment in graduate medical education, a 5-year curriculum in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry was developed and evaluated over a 10-year period. The evaluation results suggested that the program's goal to create a cadre of specialists was achieved in terms of recruitment, performance during training, fostering of clinical reasoning ability, board certification rates, and postgraduate activities. As a result, the American Boards of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry and Neurology decided to make the combined training track permanent, and the numbers of training sites and residents have since been expanded.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Schowalter
authors.forename: Charles P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Stephen C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Scheiber
authors.forename: Dorthea
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Juul