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I just wanted to gather people's thoughts on programs like Triple Boards and their utility in underserved areas. I currently live in a state that's mostly underserved, and I see myself practicing here in primary care. When I talked to my FM preceptor she mentioned that she rarely refers patients to psych because it's so hard to get them in. With that in mind, would a program like TB be valuable for underserved areas where psychiatrists (and especially child/adolescent psychiatrists) are not available? As I'm thinking about this program one of the ideas that I come back to is if I'm going to be prescribing psych medications and treating patients with psychiatric disorders as a part of my primary care practice, I might as well have a good foundation of psych knowledge. But I've also heard that it's expensive and difficult to maintain multiple certifications and most people who do TB residencies end up working in one of the three specialties rather than blending all of them.