PM Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency Programs

Note: The PM Residency Curriculum Lectures were originally posted in August 2010. The lectures have since been reviewed and updated, and the updates are in the Members' Corner. At this time, the PDF previews linked on this page reflect the August 2010 versions.

As part of the Academy's educational mission, the APM Residency Education Subcommittee has developed a series of 13 lectures (PowerPoint presentations) on core topics in psychosomatic medicine that are tailored to the educational level of a junior resident in psychiatry. The lectures are intended to assist the directors of psychiatry residency programs in training their residents in the important field of psychosomatic medicine.

The series of 13 lectures were authored by APM members who have longevity in the field. The topics addressed in the series are varied, covering some of the most salient and important issues in C-L/PM.

The links below are to PDF files of previews (the first five slides) of each lecture, with notes. The complete lectures are in the Members' Corner for access by APM members. The presentations are a service; there is no charge to download or use them.

For a 13-page PDF of the previews of all 13 lectures without notes (one lecture per page), see Residency Curriculum Preview Slides. For a history of the development of a psychiatry resident curriculum, please see History below.

History

The Academy has been advocating for psychosomatic medicine training for psychiatry residents since the early 1990s. The historical articles below are well worth the read for background to the need for such training and the prelude to today's series of 13 lectures.

1996 Publication of Recommended Guidelines
After several years of inquiries with residency program directors and collaboration with other PM groups, and before psychosomatic medicine was officially recognized as a subspecialty, recommended guidelines for C-L/PM training for psychiatry residents were published in 1996 by an APM task force chaired by David Gitlin, MD, FAPM (APM president 2009-2010). The paper was published in the January-February 1996 issue of Psychosomatics and was posted on the APM website.

2009 Publication of Core Competencies
During the years leading up to and following the official recognition of psychosomatic medicine as a subspecialty by the ABMS in 2003, the Academy collaborated with the APA Council on Psychosomatic Medicine and the ABPN Psychosomatic Committee to develop core competencies for psychiatric residency education. These core competencies were posted in PDF form on the APM website in June 2008 and published in the November-December 2009 issue of Psychosomatics.

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