PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Joseph D. Bloom
AU  - John A. Benson, Jr
TI  - Subspecialization in Psychiatry
DP  - 2005 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 95--98
VI  - 33
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/1/95.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/1/95.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2005 Mar 01; 33
AB  - Psychiatry, unlike internal medicine, was slow to develop subspecialty certification. For many years, child and adolescent psychiatry was the only major subspecialty recognized by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The situation changed in the early 1990s with the recognition by the ABPN of additional subspecialties of psychiatry including forensic psychiatry. Using the experience of the American Board of Internal Medicine as a guide, this commentary asks what comes next? What are our options as it becomes clear that there is a deepening of knowledge in the field of forensic psychiatry? Are we ready for, or interested in, the development of so-called third-generation certification programs?