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Trends in the psychiatry workforce leading to access problems
Data presented at APA's 2003 Annual Meeting in San Francisco concludes that
trends in the psychiatry workforce are leading to access problems.
Psychiatrists are seeing more patients each week and spending less time with
each. (Source of data: APA's Office of Research and the American Psychiatric
Institute for Research and Education)
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complete article here. (LocumTenens.com, March 10, 2006)
In the state's second-busiest emergency room, children with mental health
problems wait hours — and sometimes days — among patients with severe head
injuries or heart attacks and victims of major car accidents needing to be
treated. Eating, sleeping and even showering in emergency room facilities isn't
uncommon for these children at Hilo Medical Center on the Big Island, where
doctors and nurses scramble to try to move a critical backlog of patients
through the hospital system.
Sometimes they're accompanied by security guards and provided videos or
television programs to occupy their time as they wait to see a psychiatrist,
who often isn't on the island. An average of 206 adolescents per month come
into the Hilo ER needing psychiatric assessments, but the hospital doesn't have
child psychiatrists or inpatient mental health services for adolescents.
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the complete article here. (Pacific Business News)
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced the award of $34
million over six years to four projects to develop community-based mental
health services for children and adolescents with serious emotional
disturbances and their families. The programs -- in Buffalo and Albany, NY,
Helena, MT, and Frankfurt, KY – will include plans to evaluate the services and
sustain them after federal funding ends. For more on the grants from HHS’
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, visit
http://162.99.3.50/news/newsreleases/041012nr_childrenMH.htm.
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FREIDA Online Specialty Training Statistics Information for Psychiatry -
including residency programs, faculty, resident work hours, and compensation
stats.
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Psychiatric Times article outlining data from APA presentation entitled: Current
Status of the Psychiatry Workforce in the United States.
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Minnesota is suffering from a severe shortage of psychiatrists, with just one
psychiatrist for every 10,000 people. We hear about the shortage from the
perspective of the next generation of doctors preparing to enter this ailing
mental health system.
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The advance of technology has a pervasive influence, according to Mental Health
Infosource. People talk of a "the "information revolution" changing society
itself. The impact of information technology will bring change to both the face
and the heart of psychiatry, ranging from how we practice to how we think.
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the complete article here.
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