Some characteristics of psychiatric residency training programs

Abstract

The author summarizes responses to a major questionnaire survey of psychiatric residency training programs. In addition to providing objective data on residents, training staff, and on the training institution and its related facilities, the author presents information drawn from the narrative responses to questions on major issues facing psychiatry. These include training for dealing with critical social problems, recruitment of minority group trainees and faculty, and training in interdisciplinary collaboration and preparation for work with paraprofessionals. It is hoped that these data will facilitate answers to questions about the training psychiatrists should receive in the future by providing information about training programs in the immediate past.