TY - JOUR
T1 - Behavioral Health Training in Pediatric Residency Programs
T2 - A National Survey of Training Directors
AU - Shahidullah, Jeffrey D.
AU - Kettlewell, Paul W.
AU - Palejwala, Mohammed H.
AU - Forman, Susan G.
AU - Billups, Andrew
AU - Anismatta, Stephanie L.
AU - Madsen, Benjamin
N1 - Funding Information: From the *Department of Applied Psychology, Rutgers University and Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ; †Division of Psychiatry, Geisinger Health System, Dan-ville, PA; ‡Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; §Department of Applied Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Received August 2017; accepted December 2017. Supported by a grant from Geisinger Health System and Rutgers University’s Research Council awarded to the first author. Disclosure: The authors declare no conflict of interests. Address for reprints: Jeffrey D. Shahidullah, PhD, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, 152 Freylinghuysen Road, Office A353, Piscataway, NJ 08876; e-mail: js2326@gsapp.rutgers.edu. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this 8 article is prohibited.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - To identify perceptions of behavioral health (BH) training in pediatric residency programs, the degree of involvement from behavioral health providers (BHPs), and opportunities for and barriers to innovation in training.Method:A tailored design methodology was used to target all pediatric residency program directors in the United States (N = 214). Participants were identified from the Electronic Residency Application Service website of the Association of American Medical Colleges and were asked to complete a 22-item item survey on BH training.Results:A 69.2% usable response rate (N = 148) was obtained. A total of 62.8% of directors described training in the developmental-behavioral pediatrics (DBP) rotation as optimal; 36% described BH training in the residency program as a whole (i.e., outside the DBP rotation) as optimal. Only 20.3% described "common factors" training as optimal, and the quality of training in this area was positively and significantly related to the quality of BH training in the residency program as a whole (χ = 35.05, p < 0.001). The quality of common factors training was significantly higher in programs that had embedded BHPs (i.e., psychologists and social workers) in the continuity clinic than programs that did not (χ = 7.65, p = 0.04). Barriers to quality training included instructional content, instructional methods, stakeholder support, and resources.Conclusion:Despite substantial improvement in residency training in BH over the last decade, additional improvement is needed. Barriers to continued improvement include training content, training methods, support from faculty and administrator stakeholders, and resource issues. Strategies derived from implementation science have the potential to address these barriers.
AB - To identify perceptions of behavioral health (BH) training in pediatric residency programs, the degree of involvement from behavioral health providers (BHPs), and opportunities for and barriers to innovation in training.Method:A tailored design methodology was used to target all pediatric residency program directors in the United States (N = 214). Participants were identified from the Electronic Residency Application Service website of the Association of American Medical Colleges and were asked to complete a 22-item item survey on BH training.Results:A 69.2% usable response rate (N = 148) was obtained. A total of 62.8% of directors described training in the developmental-behavioral pediatrics (DBP) rotation as optimal; 36% described BH training in the residency program as a whole (i.e., outside the DBP rotation) as optimal. Only 20.3% described "common factors" training as optimal, and the quality of training in this area was positively and significantly related to the quality of BH training in the residency program as a whole (χ = 35.05, p < 0.001). The quality of common factors training was significantly higher in programs that had embedded BHPs (i.e., psychologists and social workers) in the continuity clinic than programs that did not (χ = 7.65, p = 0.04). Barriers to quality training included instructional content, instructional methods, stakeholder support, and resources.Conclusion:Despite substantial improvement in residency training in BH over the last decade, additional improvement is needed. Barriers to continued improvement include training content, training methods, support from faculty and administrator stakeholders, and resource issues. Strategies derived from implementation science have the potential to address these barriers.
KW - behavioral health
KW - medical education
KW - mental health
KW - pediatrics
KW - training
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000548
DO - https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000548
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29346135
SN - 0196-206X
VL - 39
SP - 292
EP - 302
JO - Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
JF - Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
IS - 4
ER -