PSYCHIATRIC MANPOWER AND WOMEN IN PSYCHIATRY

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This study of the kinds and amounts of professional work later done by men and women trained during the same years in the same psychiatric residency program reveals that the male graduates work up to half again as much as the women, and that the women are only 60% as likely to be certified in psychiatry. One implication of these differences is that residency programs that can regularly fill their training positions with males should not accept women trainees if the programs are to make the most effective contributions to mental health manpower needs. Centers that do not now regularly fill their positions with male trainees must decide whether to solicit applications from women and redesign their training programs to accommodate the special needs of women residents, or to augment efforts to recruit male residents. While male residents probably do in fact make more efficient use of training opportunities in terms of how much psychiatric work they later do, this study refutes the often made assertion that it is not worthwhile to accept women in psychiatric residencies because they do not complete training or engage only in token professional careers.

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