Professional Challenges in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

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Professional Challenges in Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Where the Rubber Meets the Road

• Robert L. Hendren, D.O.
• Professor of Psychiatry
• Tsakopoulos-Vismara Chair and Exec. Director,
  M.I.N.D. Institute
• Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Resources

• AACAP Draft Guidelines on Conflict of Interest
  For Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists AACAP
  Panel on Conflict of Interest, Feb 14, 2008
• ACGME and the Formation of Residents A Journey
  to Authenticity or Ten Things I have Learned in
  Ten Years ACGME Bulletin, Nov 2007

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Ethics and How We Live Our Lives

• Modeling for our residents and faculty
• We teach who we are
• Ethical behavior is always aligned with deeply
  held truths
• Put what is good for the patient before what is
  good for the doctor
• Have we abandoned vocation for a trade

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Modeling of our Institution and our Society

• Social justice
• Access to health care
• Tiered quality of care
• Transparency and truth telling

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Discussion

• Should we follow the trends in practice or try to
  change them
• Are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater
  if we do not work in some ways with industry
• CME
• Clinical trails
• Information sharing
• What role does stigma play?
• SPCAP, AACAP, eAACAP, media