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5 "I completed the program with a great knowledge base and knowing how to apply that to my patients." Ryan Rode, fourth-year resident physician Year Four • 12 months in specialized psychiatry electives, supervising junior residents (years one and two) and working in specialty clinics. Year Three • 12 months in outpatient psychiatry: general, child/adolescent and community mental health. Rick Kellerman, M.D., professor, chair Family & Community Medicine "Our department is the primary producer of physicians who take care of rural and underserved Kansas, so it becomes even more paramount that they understand how to recognize and acknowledge mental health conditions." Mike Parmley, residency program administrator Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences treatment in the primary care oce of patients that have a variety of (mental health) disorders," he said. Brown said her department is currently working to develop a mental health curriculum for the pediatric residency program and has developed the program for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship that began earlier this year. "Most mental illness starts before the age of 21;" she said, "access to evidence-based treatment is so important in improving outcomes and relieving suering. "With so many people of all ages struggling with mental health problems, it is so important that all physicians have the ability to recognize and treat, and that Kansas has the specialists it needs so they are able to refer when necessary." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness and more than one in five youth, ages 13-18, either currently or at some time in their life have had a debilitating mental illness. residency programs oered in partnership with Ascension Via Christi and Wesley Medical Center in Wichita and with a health education foundation in Salina. The latter is known as the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program. The practice of embedding mental health professionals as resources for its family medicine residents started in Wichita back in the 1960s, long before it became an accreditation requirement in family medicine by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Kellerman said. "There was an understanding from back then that individuals don't suer medical illnesses in a vacuum and oftentimes mental health concerns are intertwined with medical concerns," Kellerman noted. "The embedded mental health professionals do a number of things, but the most important thing they do is help educate and train the residents more in-depth than what we do in medical school. They go more in-depth about the identification, the screening, early identification, early treatment and