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The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world by a considerable margin, yet health indicators are among the worst in the developed world. Seeking Value: Balancing Cost and Quality in Psychiatric Care, a comprehensive volume by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's Mental Health Services Committee, examines the factors that have contributed to this disparity and offers a holistic vision for health care reform--one in which the psychiatric profession plays a pivotal role. From cost consciousness in the prescribing of medications and forming alliances with other health professionals to rethinking the way health care is financed and efforts to eliminate counterproductive incarceration practices, this guide outlines individual, systemic, and sociopolitical interventions that will position readers to effect substantive change both in the short term and in the long term. Beyond spurring thought and conversation around how to improve value in the services the psychiatric profession provides and the systems in which it operates, this book will equip those looking to develop a concrete advocacy agenda and the strategies needed to see it realized.
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During the past decade or more, there has been a rapid evolution of mental health services and treatment technologies, shifting psychiatric epidemiology, changes in public behavioral health policy and increased understanding in medicine regarding approaches to clinical work that focus on patient-centeredness. These contemporary issues need to be articulated in a comprehensive format. The American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP), a professional organization internationally recognized as holding the greatest concentration of expertise in the field, has launched a methodical process to create a competency certification in community psychiatry. As a reference for a certification examination, that effort will benefit enormously from a comprehensive handbook on the subject.
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The "Green Book" is the definitive guide to graduate medical education (residency) programs for thousands of medical students, administrators, researchers and librarians. It is the only single published source of programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and is used by students in selecting programs, and by licensing boards for verifying the authenticity of programs presented by physicians. All of the essential information for graduate medical education is included: -- Complete, accurate listings for more than 8,000 ACGME-accredited programs and 1,600 GME teaching institutions -- Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Institutional and Program Requirements for 113 specialties/subspecialties -- Medical specialty board certification requirements -- Name, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all the directors of GME programs -- GME glossary and list of US medical schools -- More than 6,500 revisions to the previous edition