Psychologists in schools of medicine in 1977: An overview.

Zimet, Carl N.

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“…As in other academic settings, the number of female psychologists in academic health centers has burgeoned. In the mid-1970s, women made up 23% of medical school psychologists, which was comparable to their representation within the APA at that time (Zimet, 1979). Today, approximately 43% of medical school psychologists are women (Pate & Kohout, 2005); these findings are comparable to an earlier survey that documented that in the mid-1990s 41% of medical psychologists were women (Williams & Wedding, 1999).…”

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History of Psychotherapy: Continuity and Change (2nd Ed.).

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Thousands of clinical and counseling psychologists have been trained in medical schools and other academic health centers, such as dental schools, schools of public health, and other health professional schools. Many thousands more psychologists currently teach or have taught in these schools.Training typically occurs at the internship or postdoctoral level, although some clinical psychology graduate programs (e.g., University of Florida, University of Missouri) are embedded within academic health centers rather than the more traditional schools of arts and sciences.Psychotherapy is a formal part of the training of psychologists in all of these programs. However, psychotherapy training is also provided for social workers, psychiatric residents, pastoral counselors, and other health professionals; the training may sometimes be concurrent but is most often discipline specific and offered separately. Training in an academic health center offers students the opportunity to see a wider range of psychopathology than can be observed in, say, a university counseling center, and a large teaching hospital provides an unparalleled opportunity to interact with-and learn fromother health professionals. It is also a setting that maximizes student learning about the interaction of physical and mental disorders, the extent to which psychological factors affect the development and maintenance of medical conditions, and the ways in which a variety of diseases produce psychological symptoms. These factors may account for the fact that medical schools represent the settings in which the largest number of predoctoral interns and postdoctoral fellows apply for internship training.There are 130 U.S. medical schools and 17 Canadian medical schools accredited by the Association of American Medical Colleges; all of these schools offer the doctor of medicine degree. In addition, there are 25 accredited colleges of osteopathic medicine in the United States that offer the doctor of osteopathic medicine degree. Psychologists tend to be better represented in allopathic (doctor of medicine) than in osteopathic (doctor of osteopathic medicine) medical schools. There are also a large number of medical schools in the Caribbean and in the Philippines; English is the language of instruction in most of these schools. Almost all of these schools have psychologists serving on the faculty, and teaching psychotherapy is typically one of their core duties. Convincing medical students that psychology and the behavioral sciences are germane to the practice of medicine is one of the challenges facing every psychologist working in such a setting (

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Psychologists in schools of medicine in 1977: An overview.

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