title: Psychiatric rehabilitation education for physicians.
abstract: As part of a rapidly spreading reform toward recovery-oriented services, mental health care systems are adopting Psychiatric/Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR). Accordingly, PSR education and training programs are now available and accessible. Although psychiatrists and sometimes other physicians (such as family physicians) provide important services to people with serious mental illnesses and may, therefore, need knowledge and skill in PSR, it seems that the medical profession has been slow to participate in PSR education. Based on our experience working in Canada as academic psychiatrists who are also Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners (CPRPs), we offer descriptions of several Canadian initiatives that involve physicians in PSR education. Multiple frameworks guide PSR education for physicians. First, guidance is provided by published PSR principles, such as the importance of self-determination (www.psrrpscanada.ca). Second, guidance is provided by adult education (andragogy) principles, emphasizing the importance of addressing attitudes in addition to knowledge and skills (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2011). Third, guidance in Canada is provided by Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) principles, which delineate the multiple roles of physicians beyond that of medical expert (Frank, 2005) and have recently been adopted in Australia (Boyce, Spratt, Davies, & McEvoy, 2011).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Island Medical Program, University of British Columbia, 642-2334 Trent Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. harudnick@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rudnick
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Eastwood
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012955:Societies, Medical