Abstract
This month's review article by Sawyer et al. (p. 139) focuses on undergraduate medical education in child and adolescent psychiatry. The authors conducted an extensive literature search that included data from four continents published during the past 4 decades. Their analysis indicates that despite the high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in youths, a disproportionately small percentage of teaching time is devoted to educating future physicians in the recognition and treatment of these disorders. The authors advocate a reconsideration of teaching time allocated to child and adolescent psychiatry, identification and promotion of clear and consistent learning objectives and core competencies for physicians in training, and stronger collaborations among teaching staff nationally and internationally. Their work is especially relevant as our field strives to incorporate data about early exposure to child and adolescent psychiatry in medical school curricula to redress the ongoing shortage of clinicians and researchers in the field.
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