the future of psychiatric practice

In 2016 17,000 US physicians graduated and 23,000 US nurse practitioners graduated. Moving forward there will be a higher percentage of psych NPs prescribing the nation's psych meds in specialty settings. Our education (that of psych NPs) kinda sucks (actually sucks a lot, is way under-regulated). This is the current reality. However, it seems that perhaps psychiatrist education is not *ideal* either. The main reason I say it's not ideal is because from a purely capitalist macroeconomic... the future of psychiatric practice
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