title: Recommendations for training psychiatry residents in psychosomatic medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates that residents in psychiatry training programs learn to provide psychiatric consultation to other medical and surgical services. The ACGME, however, offers little information to instruct academic faculty and institutions to what constitutes a quality educational experience in psychosomatic medicine/consultation-liaison psychiatry for the resident trainee.
  
  
  METHODS
  These recommendations were developed through a collaborative process between educators in C-L psychiatry and members of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's Residency Education Subcommittee.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This manuscript provides a broad framework for what constitutes a well-rounded clinical and academic resident rotation on psychiatric consultation-liaison services. A rotation that is viewed positively by residents is important as it likely provides a foundation for a growing interest in Psychosomatic Medicine and the development of future fellows and subspecialty trained physicians.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Electronic address: theinric@mcw.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Ann C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Paula C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Zimbrean
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC.
authors.forename: Sermsak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lolak
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Mark T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael, CA.
authors.forename: Kristen B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Carrie L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Gitlin
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States