Objective: The authors identify the explicit and implicit objectives that shape decisions about what medical schools teach regarding human sexuality.
Methods: The authors reviewed relevant articles in journals, physician licensing examinations, and publications by professional organizations to identify learning objectives for human sexuality in undergraduate medical curricula.
Results: There is consensus about many of the attitudinal objectives and some of the skills medical students should acquire in sexual health.
Objective: The authors describe the current characteristics of geriatrics training within general psychiatry training programs.
Methods: In the fall of 2006, a survey was mailed and made available online to all U.S.
Purpose Of Review: To summarize important recent contributions to the literature on the subject of ethics in psychiatric research.
Recent Findings: Current literature reflects an expansion in the range of psychiatric research on ethics topics. Articles continue to appear on core ethics subjects such as informed consent, but many recent contributions focus on diverse issues such as third-party privacy, the ethics of Internet-based research, revisiting the wisdom of imposing medical ethics requirements on observational research, and psychiatric research ethics as applied to special populations such as children or older persons.
Objective: Forensic psychiatry was officially recognized as a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties in the 1990's. In 1994, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) gave its first written examination to certify forensic psychiatrists. In 1996, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began to officially accredit one-year residency experiences in forensic psychiatry, which follow a 4-year residency in general psychiatry.
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