Mental Health in the Medical Home: A Longitudinal Curriculum for Pediatric Residents on Behavioral and Mental Health Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Currently, a pediatric mental and behavioral health crisis exists, driven by increasing stressors among children coupled with a paucity of psychiatric providers who treat children. Pediatric primary care providers can play a critical role in filling this gap, yet trainees feel uncomfortable screening for, identifying, and managing mental and behavioral health conditions among their patients. Thus, expanding training for pediatricians in this domain is critical.

Methods

We created a longitudinal integrated mental and behavioral health curriculum for pediatric residents at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center with a logic model contextualizing outpatient pediatric care as a framework for the development and planned evaluation. We devised

SUBMITTER: Meyers N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343532 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature