title: Improving child and adolescent psychiatry education for medical students: an inter-organizational collaborative action plan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A new Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Medical Education (CAPME) Task Force, sponsored by the Association for Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP), has created an inter-organizational partnership between child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) educators and medical student educators in psychiatry. This paper outlines the task force design and strategic plan to address the long-standing dearth of CAP training for medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The CAPME ADMSEP Task Force, formed in 2010, identified common challenges to teaching CAP among ADMSEP's CAPME Task Force members, utilizing focus-group discussions and a needs-assessment survey. The Task Force was organized into five major sections, with inter-organizational action plans to address identified areas of need, such as portable modules and development of benchmark CAP competencies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors predict that all new physicians, regardless of specialty, will be better trained in CAP. Increased exposure may also improve recruitment into this underserved area.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA. foxg@uic.edu
authors.forename: Geraldine S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: Saundra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stock
authors.forename: Gregory W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Briscoe
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: Jeffrey I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Howard Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Partner Rutter
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sexson
authors.forename: Steven C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Schlozman
authors.forename: Dorothy E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Stubbe
authors.forename: Margaret L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Stuber
mesh_terms: D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States