Preparing Psychologists in Academic Health Centers for the Rapidly Changing Health Care Environment

• Published in: Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Nash, Justin M., Schuman, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.03.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Academic Medical Centers; Careers; Conferences; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; Discipline; Educational leadership; Family Medicine; General Practice; Health care policy; Health Care Reform; Health facilities; Health Psychology; Humans; Innovations; Integrated delivery systems; Medical schools; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental health; Pain management; Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Patient safety; Primary care; Professionals; Psychologists; Psychology; Psychology - trends; Sleep; Societies, Scientific; Teaching hospitals; United States; Weddings; United States; Academic health centers; Career development; Integrated care; APAHC conference; Health care reform
• ISSN: 1068-9583; 1573-3572
• DOI: 10.1007/s10880-012-9296-1

The Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers (APAHC) convened its 5th National APAHC Conference in Boston March 3–5 2011. The conference and its theme, “ Preparing Psychologists for a Rapidly Changing Health Care Environment ,” brought psychologists from academic health centers together to examine how psychology can adapt to and help lead health care efforts in the face of health care reform. This paper reports on the conference and introduces the special issue of JCPMS that is dedicated to the conference. The conference theme is framed in the historical context of the four national conferences that preceded it. In examining the focus and topics of the preceding conferences, recurrent themes are identified and progress in certain areas is highlighted.