Developing a Collaborative Care Training Program in a Psychiatry Residency

Collaborative care is an evidence-based approach for improving quality mental health access in primary care settings. Although job opportunities will grow over the next decade, few psychiatry residencies have established curricula to train the next generation of psychiatrists to work in this expanding model of care.

In this article, the authors describe the collaborative care training experience at a safety-net academic institution to provide a template for psychiatry residencies designing curricula to prepare psychiatry residents for collaborative care practices.