Career Pathways in Psychiatry

In the light of health care reform and other forces affecting clinical practice, it is more important than ever that psychiatrists have information about the career options within their speciality. Career Pathways in Psychiatry serves that purpose

Arthur Lazarus, M.D., is Medical Director of Northwestern Institute, Fort Washington, PA and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, Phildelphia.

Bluestone, From Public Health Physician to Private Practitioner (Private Practice). Richards, Psychoanalysis: A Personal Odyssey (Private Practice). Bell, Getting Rid of Rats (Public Psychiatry). Moldawsky, HMO Psychiatry: Not All the Same (HMO Practice). Bennett, Managing Care (Managed Care). Riba, Why Choose an Academic Career? (Academia). Post, The Inveterate NIMH Career Researcher: The Opportunities and Perils of Clinical Research in an Intramural Program (Research). Lazarus, Academic-Turned-Administrator: The Psychiatrist-Executive (Administration and Management). Sperry, The Other Half of the Equation: A Psychiatrist in the Workplace (Occupational Psychiatry). Fragala, Defensive Medicine: A Career in the Air Force (Military Psychiatry). Sadoff, Legal Regulation of Practice (Forensic Psychiatry). Tollefson, Transition to a New Kind of Academia: Pharmaceutical Medicine, Pharmaceutical R&D (The Pharmaceutical Industry). Fink, Power, Politics and the Psychiatrist (Organized Medicine and Psychiatry). Arons, The Chinese Menu Track: One from Column A . . . (Health Services and Policy). Talbott, Writing and Editing My Way Through Community Psychiatry, the Chronically Mentally Ill, Academic, and Managed Care (Editing and Writing). Kessler, On Being an Entrepreneur (Entrepreneurism).