Improving Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Education for Medical Students: An Interorganizational Collaborative Action Plan Geraldine Fox Saundra Stock Greg Briscoe Gary Beck Rita Horton Jeffrey Hunt Howard Liu Ashley Partner Sandra Sexson Steven Schlozman Dorothy Stubbe Margaret Stuber 10027/10713 https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Improving_Child_and_Adolescent_Psychiatry_Education_for_Medical_Students_An_Interorganizational_Collaborative_Action_Plan/10757672 OBJECTIVE: A new Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Medical Education (CAPME) Task Force, sponsored by the Association for Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP), has created an inter-organizational partnership between child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) educators and medical student educators in psychiatry. This paper outlines the task force design and strategic plan to address the long-standing dearth of CAP training for medical students. METHOD: The CAPME ADMSEP Task Force, formed in 2010, identified common challenges to teaching CAP among ADMSEP's CAPME Task Force members, utilizing focus-group discussions and a needs-assessment survey. The Task Force was organized into five major sections, with inter-organizational action plans to address identified areas of need, such as portable modules and development of benchmark CAP competencies. RESULTS/CONCLUSION: The authors predict that all new physicians, regardless of specialty, will be better trained in CAP. Increased exposure may also improve recruitment into this underserved area. 2013-12-06 00:00:00 child and adolescent psychiatry medical student education