TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a Rural Psychiatry Training Program on The Texas-Mexico Border
T2 - A Chance for Innovation
AU - Dingle, Arden D.
AU - Fernandez, Francisco
AU - de Erausquin, Gabriel A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Creating residencies that produce psychiatrists who are skilled and interested in working in under resourced areas, especially in community and rural settings is challenging. State and private agency collaboration can be an effective approach to enhancing such training. These resources for education have the goals of improving access and services, addressing workforce shortages and improving physician retention. They can provide flexibility to implement innovations that enhance training and address community needs. This article describes the implementation of a psychiatry residency at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine. Funding was obtained from state and private initiatives. This paper describes the implementation. Feedback was positive at all levels. This program illustrates some of the advantages of utilizing alternate funding in creating high quality residencies that are integral to the community, produce skilled collaborative physicians, provide necessary care that addresses specific community needs and potentially address workforce issues in underserved areas.
AB - Creating residencies that produce psychiatrists who are skilled and interested in working in under resourced areas, especially in community and rural settings is challenging. State and private agency collaboration can be an effective approach to enhancing such training. These resources for education have the goals of improving access and services, addressing workforce shortages and improving physician retention. They can provide flexibility to implement innovations that enhance training and address community needs. This article describes the implementation of a psychiatry residency at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine. Funding was obtained from state and private initiatives. This paper describes the implementation. Feedback was positive at all levels. This program illustrates some of the advantages of utilizing alternate funding in creating high quality residencies that are integral to the community, produce skilled collaborative physicians, provide necessary care that addresses specific community needs and potentially address workforce issues in underserved areas.
KW - Graduate medical education
KW - Psychiatry resident training
KW - Rural training
KW - Workforce development
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U2 - 10.1007/s10597-021-00914-6
DO - 10.1007/s10597-021-00914-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 34812961
AN - SCOPUS:85119864025
SN - 0010-3853
VL - 58
SP - 1060
EP - 1066
JO - Community Mental Health Journal
JF - Community Mental Health Journal
IS - 6
ER -