Department of Psychological Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
Department of Clinical Services, SingHealth Polyclinics, Singapore.
Singapore Med J. 2021 May;62(5):210-212. doi: 10.11622/smedj.2021056.
Proactive steps have been taken by the public healthcare sector in Singapore to bring about awareness of mental health in terms of mental health promotion, early recognition and seeking help, with an increasing focus on making mental healthcare accessible and delivering it within the community setting where possible. Examples are the Mental Health General Practitioner Partnership Programme, National Mental Health Blueprint and Community Mental Health Masterplan. The current challenge is to train and involve more primary care doctors in the care of persons with mental health conditions. This paper describes the goals of psychiatric training in primary care and the avenues for training that are available to family medicine residents and family physicians.
新加坡公共医疗部门已经采取了积极的措施,以提高人们对心理健康的认识,包括促进心理健康、早期识别和寻求帮助,并越来越注重使精神卫生保健能够获得,并尽可能在社区环境中提供。例子包括心理健康全科医生伙伴关系计划、国家精神卫生蓝图和社区精神卫生总计划。当前的挑战是培训和让更多的初级保健医生参与精神健康状况患者的护理。本文描述了初级保健中精神病学培训的目标以及为家庭医学住院医师和家庭医生提供的培训途径。