Residency training in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: Methods and cost-effectiveness

CME Educational Objectives 1. Understand the role of training in psychodynamic psychotherapy in psychiatry residency training programs. 2. Learn a potential model for training residents in a short-term model of psychodynamic psychotherapy. 3. Review the efficacy and cost-savings data in a study training residents in this model. Whereas psychiatry grows as a field through contributions from neuroscience, genetics, psychopharmacology, and diagnostic specificity, psychiatrists continue to value the importance of psychodynamic assessment and intervention. This is reflected in the current Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) guidelines in psychiatry, requiring the demonstration of competency in psychodynamic psychotherapy. This has been further underscored through the roll out of the Next Accreditation System, requiring faculty in psychiatry training programs to delineate the achievement of resident milestones in the area of psychodynamic psychotherapy.