title: The role of research in academic psychiatric departments: a case study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors demonstrate the role that research can play in the development of an academic department of psychiatry.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors explore the challenges and achievements in the transition of one department from a strong clinically- and educationally-centered department to one with an equally strong research focus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The department significantly expanded and improved its research, educational role, and contribution to its medical school.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Leading departments of psychiatry in the United States have extremely strong research divisions. The research enterprise brings a critical academic identity to the institution and a stronger reputation and differentiates the department within the health-delivery system. However, for a department developing a research program, the frontline clinicians, staff, and students may see research as an imposition on patients and a distraction from the perceived primary mission, and they may be concerned about how they will be perceived as the institution changes its identity.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California, Department of Psychiatry & The Behavioral Sciences, 2020 Zonal Ave., IRD 702, Los Angeles 90033-0121, USA. pato@usc.edu
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pato
authors.forename: Osama
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Abulseoud
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pato
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002140:California; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration; D012380:Role; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*