Research Training in Psychiatry Residency: Strategies for Reform

BOX 3-2
Requirements Prescribed by the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee for Accredited Programs in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Topic	Required Duration (months)
Adult (general) psychiatry	31 to 42 (see Box 3-1)
Experience with acutely and severely disabled children and adolescents in an organized treatment program	4 to 10^a
Evaluation, treatment of “sufficient numbers of children and adolescents with a broad range of psychiatric illness”	NT^b
Psychotherapies in children and adolescents	NT^b
Supervised collaboration with other professional mental health practitioners	NT^b
Psychological testing	NT^b
Pediatric neurology	NT^b
Consult role to children, adolescents, and their families	NT^b
Total Prescribed Time:	35 to 52^c
SOURCE: ACGME (2000a) ^aRange is to place limits that yield minimal standards for training, but that prevent an institution from exploiting residents with excessive (i.e., >10 months) patient care responsibilities. ^bThis requirement may take extra time to fulfill as it is not timed and will not likely overlap with the one timed requirement noted. ^cThis figure does not account for mandatory vacation time, on the order of 1 month per year.