Standing Committees of the Faculty and the Purposes of the Committees. Evaluate the Adequacy of Faculty Members' Input into Departmental Decision-making. This information is then conveyed, through the hospital department head, to members of the Psychiatry Council at their quarterly meetings. The education program of the department is based on the biopsychosocial model of understanding and treating human beings, as well as the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. It is the goal of the department to train a new general of physicians who understand and practice biopsychosocial models in their future careers as health care providers.
Medical students are adults who learn new attitudes and skills by emulation of their faculty.
Faculty members teach mostly by role modeling to the students their own values, beliefs, as well as skills in the practice of modern psychiatry and behavioral science. Evaluate the extent and quality of the research effort. Indicate the dollar amount of the department's funded research, the number of papers published in referenced journals, and the number of books and book chapters completed in the year 1994 - 1995. The Psychiatry Department is fundamentally a clinically-oriented department. Nonetheless, research and scholarly activities are encouraged.