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Crucial Issues Forum

Inaugurated in 2014, the ABPN Crucial Issues Forum is an opportunity to bring together various groups within the psychiatry and neurology communities to gain insight and receive feedback on a variety of issues important to the specialties and the medical community as a whole.

Topics from past forums include:

2023: Supporting and Promoting Physicians from Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Groups in Academic Psychiatry and Neurology

2022: Supporting and Promoting Women in Academic Psychiatry and Neurology

2019: Future Directions for the ABPN

2017: Physician Wellness and Burnout

2016: Innovations in the Requirements for Maintenance of Certification

2015: Psychiatry, Neurology and Child Neurology Resident Competence Requirements

2014: Psychiatry and Neurology Subspecialty Issues

ABPN will continue to hold Crucial Issues Forums in the future that focus on topics relevant to the psychiatry and neurology communities.