AACP Newsletter, Volume 14,
Number 1, Winter 2000
Activities of the AACP Training Committee
The Training Network also plans to assemble a resource guide for community psychiatry training curricula and training site development. Work will begin on this shortly through the A-Train listserv. The listserv is currently being updated. If you wish to be included, please contact Jack Haggerty at the address below.
At the fall meeting of the AACP Board it was also decided to submit a proposal for the 2000 IPS meeting in Philadelphia. This will take the form of a workshop on five aspects of community psychiatry residency training including: issues in the degree of fit between training program expectations and training site characteristics; the concept of "service-learning" as applied to community psychiatry training; deficiencies in residency training predictably leading to difficulties in transitioning from residency to public sector practice; the use of supportive psychotherapy with chronically ill patients as a training activity; and the development of the AACP Training Network.
In the area of medical student education, Bob Goisman is now the official AACP liaison to the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP). He attended the June, 1999 ADMSEP meeting in Rockport, Maine in that capacity and found the group to be highly receptive both to collaborating with the AACP and also to consideration of community psychiatry sites as a primary vehicle for clerkship education. Bob Thompson of the University of Pittsburgh and Ken Thompson of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) submitted a paper on community psychiatric clerkship outpatient training which has been accepted for presentation at the next ADMSEP meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico in June, 2000.
In other developments regarding medical student education, the AACP continues to be an integral part of the Workforce Consortium, made up of the AACP, APA, ADMSEP, AAP, and AADPRT, with student liaisons, so far, with AMSA and SNMA. Efforts are being made to insure that community psychiatrists are involved in regional and national meetings of the student organizations. If you are interested in being involved with medical student organizations in your region, please contact Ken Thompson.
We hope that our efforts in these and other areas of psychiatric education are of interest to AACP members. For further information, please contact Board members Ken Thompson at (412) 383-9805 or ThompsonKS@msx.upmc.edu; Bob Goisman at (617) 626-9549 or RGois@aol.com; or Jack Haggerty at (919) 966-4622 or John.Haggerty@css.unc.edu. Happy New Year!
Robert M. Goisman, MD
Kenneth Thompson, MD
John Haggerty, MD
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