RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The American Psychiatric Association’s Resource Document on Guidelines for Psychiatric Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 85
OP 88
VO 33
IS 1
A1 Stuart A. Anfang
A1 Larry R. Faulkner
A1 John A. Fromson
A1 Michael H. Gendel
YR 2005
UL http://jaapl.org/content/33/1/85.abstract
AB The psychiatric evaluation of a physician’s fitness for duty is an undertaking that is both important to patients’ well-being and to the physician-subject of the evaluation. It is necessary that psychiatrists who agree to perform such evaluations proceed in a careful and thorough manner. This document was developed to provide general guidance to the psychiatric evaluators in these situations. It was prepared by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Council on Psychiatry and Law and Corresponding Committee on Physician Health, Illness, and Impairment, of which the authors are members. The Resource Document was approved by the APA Joint Reference Committee in June 2004. APA Resource Documents do not represent official policy of the American Psychiatric Association. This Resource Document was edited to conform to Journal style and has therefore been modified slightly from the original document approved by the APA.