Mental health care is a critical need in rural areas. Various models integrate primary care and mental health.
Rural physicians can help by
I would particularly like you to consider the latter. If you share office space or receptionists with mental health providers, you will gain some valuable resources for your patients and to assist you in patient care. It also gives a measure of confidentiality to patients coming in for care in tight-knit rural communities as no one knows whether they are seeing primary care or mental health. Patients can come in without the stigma.
We are announcing a newly developed 2-year fellowship in Family Systems Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch located in Galveston Texas. We accepted our first fellow in July 2000, and are looking forward to recruiting an additional fellow for July 2001. We greatly appreciate your help in this endeavor. If you have third-year residents with special interests in Behavioral Medicine, please share our fellowship information with them. Thank you for your cooperation.
If you have any questions, please contact me at the number below.
Phone: (409) 772-6500 Fax: (409) 772-0635 E-mail: [email protected]
Sincerely yours, Dorothy B. Trevino, LMSW, Ph.D.