Promoting and facilitating professional development are among the highest priorities of the American Psychiatric Association. As a national medical specialty society with more than 36,000 physician members, APA has a multifaceted mission: to promote the highest quality care for individuals with mental disorders and their families, to promote psychiatric education and research, to advance and represent the profession of psychiatry, and to serve the professional needs of its membership. Accomplishment of the first three elements of this mission is contingent on our success in meeting the professional and educational needs of our members. A commentary on professional development in psychiatry brings to mind its parallels to all human growth and development as well as our evolving understanding of brain development. Like both psychological maturing and neurogenesis, which we know to occur across the lifespan, professional growth and development is possible and necessary well beyond the formative years of formal education; it must continue throughout the span of a career. Further, we know that, much like the brain, a psychiatrists development reflects an ongoing dynamic interplay in which environmental factors, extending from changes in the structure and financing of health care to scientific advances, necessarily modify individual behaviors. The
Setting a Trajectory for Career-Long Professional Development
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Promoting and facilitating professional development are among the highest priorities of the American Psychiatric Association. As a national medical specialty society with more than 36,000 physician members, APA has a multifaceted mission: to promote the highest quality care for individuals with mental disorders and their families, to promote psychiatric education and research, to advance and represent the profession of psychiatry, and to serve the professional needs of its membership. Accomplishment of the first three elements of this mission is contingent on our success in meeting the professional and educational needs of our members. A commentary on professional development in psychiatry brings to mind its parallels to all human growth and development as well as our evolving understanding of brain development. Like both psychological maturing and neurogenesis, which we know to occur across the lifespan, professional growth and development is possible and necessary well beyond the formative years of formal education; it must continue throughout the span of a career. Further, we know that, much like the brain, a psychiatrists development reflects an ongoing dynamic interplay in which environmental factors, extending from changes in the structure and financing of health care to scientific advances, necessarily modify individual behaviors. ThePreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Setting a Trajectory for Career-Long Professional Development
Hales, Deborah J.
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, Volume 31 (2): 127
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Apr 1, 2007
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