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Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry vs Psychosomatic Medicine: What's in a name?
Robert J Boland1, James Rundell2, Steven Epstein3
1Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background:
In November of 2017, The Academy of the Psychosomatic Medicine voted to change its name to the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. It followed a similar change in which the American Board of Medical Specialties voted to change the name of the field to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Objective:
The authors, all instrumental in bringing about this change, discuss the history and rationale for this name change.
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