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Practice Guidelines and Psychiatric Education

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The American Psychiatric Association’s practice guidelines provide authoritative guidance for assessing and treating major clinical problems that psychiatrists face. This article reviews the social context in which practice guidelines have emerged, opportunities they afford educators, and limitations in their educational and practice applications. Practice guidelines should be used in residents’ and medical students’ seminars and in continuing medical education activities. The incentive to study guidelines may increase as their likely use as information sources for questions on in-service and specialty board certification examinations as well as in clinical quality-assurance activities becomes more widely recognized.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2400 Tucker, NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-5326, USA

    Joel Yager M.D. (professor and vice chair for education, chair)

  2. American Psychiatric Association Subcommittee on Practice Guideline Dissemination, Implementation and Evaluation, Washington, DC, USA

    Joel Yager M.D. (professor and vice chair for education, chair)

  3. Office of Research, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, USA

    Deborah A. Zarin M.D. (deputy medical director and co-director) & Harold A. Pincus M.D. (deputy medical director and director, clinical professor of psychiatry)

  4. George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Harold A. Pincus M.D. (deputy medical director and director, clinical professor of psychiatry)

  5. American Psychiatric Association, USA

    John S. McIntyre M.D. (past president, chair, clinical professor of psychiatry)

  6. American Psychiatric Association Steering Committee on Practice Guidelines, USA

    John S. McIntyre M.D. (past president, chair, clinical professor of psychiatry)

  7. University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, USA

    John S. McIntyre M.D. (past president, chair, clinical professor of psychiatry)

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Yager, J., Zarin, D.A., Pincus, H.A. et al. Practice Guidelines and Psychiatric Education. Acad Psychiatry 21, 226–233 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341436

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