Overview
Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field of academic medicine, Between Mind, Brain, and Managed Care: The Now and Future World of Academic Psychiatry is the most documented study on this topic to date, providing readers with a blueprint for the future of academic psychiatry. Through case examples, survey data, and financial data, this book thoroughly reviews the educational, research, clinical, and financial challenges facing academic psychiatry. The authors emphasize the importance of the public sector to psychiatry and describe the impact changes in funding psychiatric services have on the educational and research efforts of academic health centers nationwide.
This book should be read by anyone interested in academic psychiatry, including academic and full-time psychiatrists, other academic leaders, residents, and medical students. Between Mind, Brain, and Managed Care will benefit the reader with a comprehensive look at the future opportunities of academic psychiatry as we approach the next century.
American Psychiatric Publishing
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
International Review of Psychiatry
This book provides an important survival guide for academic psychiatry in the U.S. and points to changes that many need to be in other countries in the face of the more stringent demands of government.
From The Critics
Reviewer: John K. Larson, MD(Rush University Medical Center)Description: This book, edited and largely written by Roger E. Meyer, current Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Connecticut, is largely based on a series of academic medical center case studies conducted by the author and funded by a MacArthur Foundation grant.
Purpose: This book grew out of the primary author's interest in healthcare reform and its impact on academic health centers. Its purpose is to elucidate the threats as well as the opportunities presented by managed care, share the experiences of several prominent institutions which have taken creative and divergent approaches to these challenges, and provide a series of practical recommendations to inform the debate on these topics.
Audience: The targeted audience is clearly psychiatric educators, administrators, and policymakers. It may be of some interest to medical directors of managed care organizations, but will be of limited interest to psychiatrists practicing outside of academic medical centers.
Features: Each chapter is well written, concise, and generally provocative. The book benefits from a consistent tone and the passion of the primary editor for his subject is apparent on every page. Topics include: academic psychiatry in an uncertain time; the response of academic psychiatry to managed care; the educational missions of academic psychiatry and research; and psychiatry's role in primary care.
Assessment: This is an eminently useful publication that should serve well to inform strategic deliberations at this critical juncture for academic medicine. While addressing the goal of financial survival it should also serve as a clarion call for academic psychiatry to assume a position of leadership in determining healthcare policy while remaining faithful to its educational and research missions.
John K. Larson
This book, edited and largely written by Roger E. Meyer, current Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Connecticut, is largely based on a series of academic medical center case studies conducted by the author and funded by a MacArthur Foundation grant. This book grew out of the primary author's interest in healthcare reform and its impact on academic health centers. Its purpose is to elucidate the threats as well as the opportunities presented by managed care, share the experiences of several prominent institutions which have taken creative and divergent approaches to these challenges, and provide a series of practical recommendations to inform the debate on these topics. The targeted audience is clearly psychiatric educators, administrators, and policymakers. It may be of some interest to medical directors of managed care organizations, but will be of limited interest to psychiatrists practicing outside of academic medical centers. Each chapter is well written, concise, and generally provocative. The book benefits from a consistent tone and the passion of the primary editor for his subject is apparent on every page. Topics include: academic psychiatry in an uncertain time; the response of academic psychiatry to managed care; the educational missions of academic psychiatry and research; and psychiatry's role in primary care. This is an eminently useful publication that should serve well to inform strategic deliberations at this critical juncture for academic medicine. While addressing the goal of financial survival it should also serve as a clarion call for academic psychiatry to assume a position of leadership in determining healthcare policy while remainingfaithful to its educational and research missions.Booknews
Explores the impact on academic psychiatry of the rapid disappearance of opportunities for legal cross-subsidization of the academic enterprise in the face of managed care. Discussion encompasses aspects including clinical delivery systems in academic psychiatry in response to managed care, the educational missions of academic psychiatry and the place of research, and psychiatry and the new emphasis on primary care. Includes six detailed case studies of departments of psychiatry at various universities and medical centers around the country. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.3 Stars from Doody