Comply With Federal Laws Before Checking Institutional Guidelines on Resident Referrals for Psychiatric Evaluations

摘要

After providing the Journal of Graduate Medical Education ( JGME ) with detailed scenarios and legal guidelines for program directors to consider before referring medical residents for psychiatric evaluations,~(~(1)) I found JGME 's recent editorial~(~(2)) on this issue from an associate editor to be disheartening.Thomas does not recommend that program directors and hospital leaders comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when referring residents for an evaluation. Instead, he encourages them to review state medical board and institutional guidelines and regulations,~(~(2)) and other organizational resources.