- Close the Knowledge Gap
- Provide High Quality, Interactive, Continuing Medical Education Opportunities Leading to Change In Physician Behavior In the Treatment of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
- Close the Treatment Gap
- Increase Early Identification of Psychiatric Disorders
- Close the Mortality Gap
- Close the Cost Gap
- Increase Access to High Quality Mental Health Care
- Increase integration and collaboration between PCPs and psychiatrists
The Primary Care Psychiatry Foundation Opens the Bottleneck
- The Bottleneck
- Too few psychiatrists
- Undertrained PCPs and systems of care
- Increased need for psychiatric services
- Stigma preventing early recognition and treatment
Systemic Goals of the Primary Care Psychiatry Foundation
Current Health Care System
Individual illness
PCPs and systems of care with minimal psychiatry training
System of care overwhelmed, resource-scarce, crisis-responsive
Goals of the Foundation
Individual well being
PCPs and systems of care knowledgeable and attuned
Systems of care effective, economical, and prevention-oriented
Close the Knowledge Gap
Provide High Quality, Interactive, Continuing Medical Education Opportunities Leading to Change In Physician Behavior In the Treatment of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders