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Live Q&A featured helps reveal C-L Fellowship Secrets
ACLP partnered with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in mid-June to stage a virtual recruitment forum to help promote C-L Psychiatry fellowships to medical students and residents.
Organized by the Residency Education Subcommittee, the forum Secrets of Applying to C-L Fellowships in 2021 attracted an audience of more than 115 registrants many of whom took part in a live Q&A session. A recording of the forum is posted here.
The webinar was presented by:
The forum was proposed by APA’s Council on Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as one initiative aimed at counteracting the psychiatric workforce shortage which is estimated to peak in 2024.
Factors contributing to the shortage, identified by the APA, include:
Further, disparities exist because of the unequal distribution of behavioral health providers in rural areas and because many psychiatrists do not accept health insurance as reimbursement.
Solutions being explored include: