Is psychiatry on the decline?

In the US, the number of medical students choosing psychiatry as a career had been in decline over more than two decades in a study published in 1995 102. A 2009 report gives a more optimistic picture, but over 30\% of psychiatrists in residency training are international medical graduates 101.

What is the current demand for psychiatrists?

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the current workforce of about 45,580 psychiatrists must increase by 2,800 to meet today’s demands for psychiatric care. This works out to a 6.4 percent shortage. By 2025, that shortage could be as high as 6,090 psychiatrists, or 12 percent.

Is psychiatry becoming obsolete?

Psychiatry is in decline and is becoming obsolete, a victim of its own psychobabble and increasingly mind-numbing research, understandable to the elite few.

Is psychiatry a stressful profession?

Psychiatrists have a stressful life. They use themselves as “tools” in their profession and experience a range of powerful emotions in their clinical work. Given the personal nature of the relationship psychiatrists have to develop with their patients, these emotions are likely to be intensified in their context.

Are psychiatrists burned out?

It is estimated that 2 out of 5 psychiatrists have professional burnout. Addressing this problem has become one of the most pressing issues for medicine. APA is committed to helping psychiatrists achieve well-being and addressing individual and system-level challenges which contribute to professional burnout.

Why you shouldn’t become a psychiatrist?

Lengthy, competitive educational process: Psychiatrists are medical doctors, meaning they have to complete undergraduate degrees, medical degrees, and several years of a medical residency before they can practice. Those can be stressful, challenging, sleep-deprived years.