Mental Health and UC Davis Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Northern California VA Healthcare System, 10535 Hospital Way, Mather, Sacramento, CA, 95655, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa and Iowa City VA Health Care, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2018 Mar 12;20(3):15. doi: 10.1007/s11920-018-0878-y.
Psychiatric practice continues to evolve and play an important role in patients' lives, the field of medicine, and health care delivery. Clinicians must learn a variety of clinical care systems and lifelong learning (LLL) is crucial to apply knowledge, develop skills, and adjust attitudes. Technology is rapidly becoming a key player-in delivery, lifelong learning, and education/training.
The evidence base for telepsychiatry/telemental health via videoconferencing has been growing for three decades, but a greater array of technologies have emerged in the last decade (e.g., social media/networking, text, apps). Clinicians are combining telepsychiatry and these technologies frequently and they need to reflect on, learn more about, and develop skills for these technologies. The digital age has solidified the role of technology in continuing medical education and day-to-day practice. Other fields of medicine are also adapting to the digital age, as are graduate and undergraduate medical education and many allied mental health organizations. In the future, there will be more online training, simulation, and/or interactive electronic examinations, perhaps on a monthly cycle rather than a quasi-annual or 10-year cycle of recertification.
精神科实践在患者生活、医学领域和医疗保健服务中继续发展并发挥着重要作用。临床医生必须学习各种临床护理系统，而终身学习（LLL）对于应用知识、发展技能和调整态度至关重要。技术正迅速成为医疗、终身学习和教育/培训的关键参与者。
通过视频会议进行远程精神病学/远程心理健康的证据基础已经发展了三十年，但在过去十年中出现了更多种类的技术（例如，社交媒体/网络、文本、应用程序）。临床医生经常将远程精神病学和这些技术结合使用，他们需要反思、更多地了解这些技术并发展相关技能。数字时代巩固了技术在继续医学教育和日常实践中的作用。其他医学领域也在适应数字时代，研究生和本科医学教育以及许多相关的心理健康组织也是如此。未来，将有更多的在线培训、模拟和/或互动式电子考试，或许每月一次，而不是每十年或每十年进行一次准年度或认证。
