The Council on Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is charged to the following tasks:

• Providing leadership at the interface of psychiatry with other medical specialties.
• Providing training and education to psychiatrists and other physicians, residents (including psychiatric residents), and medical students at scientific meetings and in other settings about the special needs of those with psychiatric illness in medically ill and complex medically ill populations.
• Providing scientific and clinical expertise on issues surrounding co-morbidities such as, but not limited to HIV Psychiatry and Integrated Care, and advocate for the enhancement of training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in medical schools and residency training programs.

The Council is also expected to: ​

• Create educational materials about the needs of those with psychiatric illness in medically ill and complex medically ill populations and the role of psychiatry/psychiatrists in meeting those needs–for medical and non-medical audiences.
• Work with other components and/or organizations on health care policy initiatives:
  • The evaluation and design of delivery systems, models of care, and payment mechanisms aimed at promoting high degrees of quality and cost effectiveness in those with significant medical-psychiatric co-morbidity.
• Support APA’s advocacy efforts to increase the funding of research in these areas, and support and/or lead ongoing efforts to improve the recruitment of psychiatrists into Psychosomatic (Consultation Liaison Psychiatry) fellowship programs.

Term

Three years; volunteer leaders will be eligible for reappointment for an additional three year term at the conclusion of their first term.

Expected Time Commitment

Bi-monthly meetings and work on deliverables outside of Council meetings.

Desired Expertise

The Council's upcoming projects and therefore desired expertise would involve topics of Psychiatric care in emergency departments, palliative care, pain management and end of life care, Catatonia, Delirium, etc.

Responsibilities

Leaders on the Council initiate involvement in the review of position statements, creation of background and resource documents, and bring their unique job perspectives to group discussions. Group leaders should encourage and reach out to fellows and ECP members who may look to them for guidance on the Council or otherwise.