NUBE 2024

Despite increasing psychiatric and behavioral health presentations to emergency departments, Emergency Medicine (EM) residents and physicians have limited training in caring for these patients. The training that is received is not standardized across residency programs and is primarily focused on didactic lectures. During this session, we will discuss our own approach to bridging this gap and the development of a fellowship designed for EM-trained physicians. Our fellowship is housed at a large, urban, tertiary-care medical center and includes rotations with the Department of Psychiatry’s inpatient units, inpatient consult-liaison service, emergency consult service, and addiction medicine service as well as an outpatient continuity clinic.  Finally, we will discuss the observed and anticipated effects of escalating training for EM-trained physicians.

Learning Objectives:

Summarize the current state of psychiatric and behavioral health training for Emergency Medicine physicians.

Describe the development of a psychiatry and behavioral health fellowship at an urban, tertiary-care medical center.

Discuss the anticipated effects of increased psychiatric training for Emergency Medicine physicians.