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. 1999 Mar;4(2):119-23.
doi: 10.1093/pch/4.2.119.

Innovative continuing medical education program for paediatricians: A model for the delivery of mental health services

R Geist  1 , L Simon
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Innovative continuing medical education program for paediatricians: A model for the delivery of mental health services

R Geist et al. Paediatr Child Health. 1999 Mar.

Abstract
in English, French

Paediatricians have described themselves as feeling insufficiently trained to manage young people (and their families) with significant psychosocial distress and mental illness - who can comprise a large proportion of their practices. A continuing medical education program for a group of four paediatricians who treat the paediatric mental health needs of a large Ontario catchment area with few mental health resources is described. At a monthly educational and consultation clinic, the paediatricians discuss and personally interview their own patients and referrals while a child psychiatrist and a psychiatric social worker, using a two-way mirror, assist them to develop psychosocial interviewing skills and techniques, and diagnostic formulations.

Des pédiatres trouvent qu’ils manquent de formation pour prendre en charge des jeunes (et leur famille) souffrant de troubles psychosociaux et de maladies mentales graves, ce qui peut constituer une vaste proportion de leur pratique. On décrit un programme de formation médicale continue à l’intention d’un groupe de quatre pédiatres ontariens qui assurent les services de santé mentale en pédiatrie d’une importante région disposant de peu de ressources en santé mentale. À une clinique mensuelle d’enseignement et de consultation, les pédiatres discutent de leurs propres patients et des patients envoyés en consultation et les évaluent eux-mêmes tandis qu’un pédopsychiatre et un travailleur social en psychiatrie, au moyen d’un miroir sans tain, les aident à développer des compétences et des techniques d’entrevue psychosociale ainsi qu’à formuler les diagnostics.

Keywords: Continuing medical education; Mental health; Paediatricians; Psychiatrist.

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