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A Strategic Approach to the Psychiatric Workforce Dilemma

To help build consensus in the field of psychiatry about future psychiatric manpower needs, a 13-step strategic approach to the workforce issue is described. The steps include recognizing the importance of the assumptions that underlie workforce requirements; selecting credible and professional leadership with vision and courage; adopting a strategic plan to clarify workforce assumptions; re-examining the structure and function of established programs; preparing trainees for work in the 21st century; preserving psychiatry's humanistic tradition; enlisting the support of nonacademic psychiatrists; and reinforcing involvement in the fiscal and political aspects of medicine. They also include focusing attention on important policy issues; securing the support of patients, families, and advocates; endorsing a multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial approach to the evaluation and treatment of mental illness; minimizing divisive conflicts within and between national organizations; and developing strategic alliances with other medical disciplines. Implications of the 13-step approach are outlined for psychiatric clinicians, educators, and researchers, as well as for the organizations that serve them.

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