Psychiatric Skepticism in Medical Education: Why We Need Philosophy

Conceptual Competence in Psychiatry: Recommendations for Education and Training

“…Moreover, our proposal comes in the context of increasing calls to modernize psychiatric training [6], to include philosophy of psychiatry in psychiatry residency didactic curricula [7], to engage psychiatric taxonomy with critical consciousness, and to equip professionals to use psychiatric diagnoses responsibly (conceptual competence in psychiatric diagnosis) [8]. There have also been calls to engage with philosophy and psychiatric skepticism in medical student education [9].…”