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EPA-0125 – Integrating Sexology Education into Psychiatry Residency Training: Perspectives From the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

D. Lin
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA
E. Kleinbart
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA

Abstract

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Objective:

The presentation will focus on how psychosexual medicine and sexology education can be integrated into psychiatry residency training.

Design and methods:

The Psychosexual Medicine Program currently being implemented at Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in New York, NY will be described.

Results:

The positive impact on the training program and overwhelming support from faculty and residents of the program will be discussed.

Discussion:

An argument will be made why it is important to teach sexual medicine in psychiatry residency training and how psychiatrists are uniquely positioned to be good sexologists. It will be recommended that sexual medicine education become an integrated part of psychiatry residency training everywhere in the USA.

Type
EPW15 - Sexual Medicine
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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