Residency Training Issues in Community Psychiatry

The integration of training in social and community psychiatry into the basic three-year psychiatric curriculum poses a number of issues on which little agreement has been reached. On the basis of his experiences and observations during the past eight years, the author presents his views on nine issues in such training. He proposes that training in community psychiatry must build upon solid initial clinical training but must also enable the resident to enlarge his repertoire of skills, knowledge, and professional roles beyond the clinical area.