Cognitive behavioral therapy: a blueprint for attaining and assessing psychiatry resident competency.
BACKGROUND
The Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) now requires that all psychiatric residency programs demonstrate competency for all psychiatric residents in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).


OBJECTIVE
To increase awareness about specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to perform competent CBT, optimal teaching methods available to insure competency, and valid assessment tools and resources available to training programs.


METHODS
Literature review and discussion of common features of successful training programs.


CONCLUSIONS
Training programs have resources and standardized methods of training, supervision, and assessment available to help residents meet the ACGME mandated competency requirements in CBT.
Sudak
Donna M
DM
Department of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ds42@EXCHANGE1.DREXEL.EDU
Beck
Judith S
JS
Wright
Jesse
J
D000068:Accreditation; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching