A symposium on psychologists in schools of medicine in 1977.

Abstract

The number of psychologists holding academic appointments in schools of medicine is an index of the degree to which comprehensive medicine has advanced. It is also an indication of how viable the medical school is as an occupational setting for psychologists.A national manpower study conducted in 1976 and concluded in 1977 consisted of three modules: In the first module, chief psychologists in the 115 U.S. medical schools were surveyed regarding the number, sex, full-time-part-time status, and names of psychologists holding faculty appointments. (This survey is unique in that 100% of the medical schools provided usable returns.) Chief psychologists also were asked to indicate if they were voting members of their medical school faculties (Matarazzo,

Professional psychology internships.

“…In recent years, the employment market for psychologists has changed from chiefly educational settings to primarily mental health delivery agencies (Albee, 1977;Banikiotes, 1978;Woods, 1976) and health care (Asken, 1979;Lubin et al, 1979). This trend has underscored the importance of psychologists obtaining certain skills, competencies, and other credentials requisite to employment in such settings.…”

Psychologists in schools of medicine in 1977: An overview.

“…It is this increasing role of medical schools in the employment and education of psychologists (Lubin, 1979) that makes this set of papers based on questionnaire data invaluable. Despite the frictions between psychiatry, medicine, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and psychology and despite the large scale recent exclusion of psychology faculty as voting members of many university-affiliated hospitals, psychologists appear to be well satisfied with their work and their roles in the medical school setting.…”

Salaries and satisfactions of medical school psychologists.

“…In 1977, as part of a large, multifaceted investigation of psychologists in schools of medicine (Lubin, Nathan, Gildenberg, & Matarazzo, 1980;Lubin et al, 1979;Nathan, Lubin, Matarazzo, & Persely, 1979), 642 full-time PhD medical school psychologists 1 received a questionnaire with optional items regarding their current salary and their potential salary in 4 years (i.e., 1981). These optional items asked the psychologists to circle their salary range, including any "income derived from medical school arrangements for salary augmentations."…”