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State working group hears presentations on psychiatry residency expansion, workforce gaps
Summary
Presenters described psychiatry workforce shortages in Connecticut, new residency programs (including the state’s first FQHC-based psychiatry residency), recruitment and retention challenges for trainees and faculty, and next steps for the working group’s report to the legislature.
Renee Serkin, psychiatry faculty at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, told a state behavioral health and graduate medical education working group on Aug. 19 that Connecticut faces large shortfalls in psychiatric care and that new residency programs are intended to increase access and retention.
"One in five adults suffer with mental illness, only four in 10 receive treatment, and only one in 10 for substance use disorders," Serkin said, citing workforce data and HRSA projections that show shortages across urban and rural areas in the state. She said national projections show the psychiatrist workforce could fall by about 27% in five years as older clinicians retire.
The presentation outlined three recently accredited psychiatry residency programs that expand training in Connecticut: a rural-track program affiliated with Quinnipiac and Hartford HealthCare, an Eastern Connecticut Health Network program located in a high-need region, and the state’s first federally qualified health center (FQHC)–based psychiatry residency at Connecticut Institute for Communities in Danbury. Serkin said the new programs together add roughly 12 psychiatry graduates per…
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