The VA psychiatry service as a setting for residency education
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (8) , 960-965
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.960
Abstract
Chairmen of academic departments of psychiatry and chiefs of Veterans Administration (VA) psychiatry services were surveyed concerning administrative relationships between academic psychiatry departments and VA psychiatry services and the education of psychiatry residents in VA settings. The extent and quality of relationships, the interdependence of academic departments and VA psychiatry services, factors important for good VA training, and advantages and disadvantages of using the VA for residency education are documented. Suggestions are presented for improving the quality of relationships between academic departments and VA psychiatry services and for strengthening psychiatric education in the VA setting.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: