Collaborative Role Education in Post Graduate Psychiatric Training: A Narrative Review

Collaboration competency has been increasingly emphasized and valued in medical curricula because physicians work in multiprofessional health care settings where care is patient-centered and patients have a trajectory of care. Psychiatry is a discipline that has a more intuitive inclination toward the collaboration role than other specialties in medicine. This may, in part, be attributed to the multiprofessional teams typically involved and the use of the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model in mental health care. This narrative review will examine the present evidence for methods of teaching psychiatry residents the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the collaborative role.