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Consultation – Liaison Psychiatry In The General Hospital: The Integration Of Service And Training

G. Daubaras

Vilnius University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania

General Practitioners (GP s) are a disparate and heterogenerous group of physicians with a wide variation in their interest, skills, and capabilities in handling mental health and psychiatric problems. Such problems may occupy up to 40-70 % of their time, which are often interwoven with physical complaints. They only regard a small proportion of problems to be “psychiatric“. The rapid growth of psychotherapy and physicians of internal medicine are based ( on September 1992).  The Family practice literature defines four significant aspects of training of family practice residents:

   What is taught (content),

   How material is taught (implementation),

   Where teaching should take place (location),

   Who teaches (teaches).

These aspects of GP s training are discussed. In brief, the teaching programme of GP s placed in consultation – liaison unit could evolve and incorporate new ideas and approaches for dealing with patient’s psychosomatic and psychiatric problems.

 Baltic Sea Conference on Training in Medical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vilnius/Lithuania/September 7-10, 1994.