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Attracting and retaining good psychiatrists and providing the best possible
psychiatric services has been an ongoing concern in the Behavioral Health
System (BHS). Philadelphia Connections addressed this concern by hosting
meetings that included representatives of community psychiatrists, psychiatry
residency programs, care providers, and city and state government agencies.

To gather information on the involvement of psychiatry education programs
with the Philadelphia BHS, Connections undertook a formal survey of all
five psychiatry residency programs in the area and shared the resulting
eleven-page report of survey results with participants. The results showed
that psychiatry residents were extensively involved with BHS providers
through residency rotations.
For a summary of the Residency Program Report, click here.

Current projects include:

A community psychiatry seminar series available to psychiatry
residency programs in the Philadelphia area
(more details, click here)
A pilot project with a BHS provider agency to increase psychiatric
time devoted to peer supervision and case consultation

This page was updated on May 5, 2004.