Family Medicine & Psychiatry - Integrated Care Links

The Future of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

The demand for graduates with integrated training in psychiatry and medicine has visibly increased in recent years, partly due to demands for and innovative efforts at health care reform. We're confident that this career pathway integrating psychiatry and medicine will play a formative role in our new health care system, and we hope you'll join us in shaping these new approaches. 

Integrated Psychiatry and FM or IM Residency Training:

• Perceptions and Practices of Graduates of Combined FMP Residency Programs: A Nationwide Survey (PDF)
• Characteristics of Combined Family Practice-Psychiatry Residency Programs (PDF)
• Combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry and Family Practice/Psychiatry Training Programs 1999-2000: Residents' Perspectives (PDF)
• Combined Internal Medicine Psychiatry and Family Medicine Psychiatry Training Programs 1999-2000: Program Directors' Perspectives (PDF)

The Practice of Integrated Care:

• Integrating Medical Care For Patients with Serious Psychiatric Illness: A Randomized Trial (PDF)
• Feeling Good and Losing Weight: The Chicken or the Egg (PDF)
• Models of Integrated Care (PDF)
• Compendium of Integrated Care Projects (2008) (PDF)
• Consultation psychiatry in the medical home and accountable care  PDF)

Roles for Dually-Trained Physicians:

• New Roles for Consult-Liaison Psychiatrists (PDF)
• University of Washington Consulting Psychiatrist Job Bulletin (PDF)
• Farley Center (Williamsburg, VA) FM/IM/Addiction Psychiatry Job Bulletin (DOC)

Professional Organizations Dedicated to Integrated Care

• Association for Medicine and Psychiatry
• Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
• American Psychosomatic Society
• Collaborative Family Healthcare Association

Other Related Professional Organizations

• American Psychiatric Association
• American Academy of Family Physicians