Reprint of: Psychosomatic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry: Scope of practice, processes, and competencies for psychiatrists working in the field of CL psychiatry or psychosomatics. A consensus statement of the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) Albert F.G. Leentjens a, ⁎ , James R. Rundell b , Deane L. Wolcott c , Else Guthrie d , Roger Kathol e , and Albert Diefenbacher f a Department of Psychiatry, Maastricht University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands b Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Mn, USA c Aptium Oncology, Los Angelos, Ca, USA d Department of Psychiatry, Manchester University, Manchester, UK e Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Mn, USA f Department of Psychiatry, Königing Elisabeth Herzberge Hospital, Charité Hospital Group, Berlin, Germany Received 23 July 2010; received in revised form 26 October 2010; accepted 29 October 2010 Abstract Objective: In 2008, the Board of the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) Council commissioned the creation of a task force to study consensus-based summaries of core roles, scope of clinical practice, and basic competencies for psychiatrists working in the field of Psychoso- matic Medicine (PM) and/or Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP). Method: The task force used existing statements of competencies and feedback from EACLPP and APM symposia and workshops to develop a draft document. After review by the EACLPP and APM committees, and the EACLPP Board and APM Council, a period of comment from the field preceded a final draft resubmitted for consideration of the EACLPP Board and APM Council in February 2010. Results: The two organizations completed approval of final publication of the consensus statement on June 11, 2010. This consensus statement is a summary of clinical competencies, scope of clinical effort, and roles considered by the sponsoring organizations to be fundamental to the practice of this subspecialty or special area of expertise, anywhere, of PM or CLP. Conclusion: This consensus statement delineates a set of basic competencies and roles of a PM/CLP psychiatrist to serve as an internationally recognized base that may be used by national societies and institutions to formulate their own competencies, scope of practice, and roles or help with guideline formulation. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. DOIs of original article: 10.1016/j.psym.2010.11.022, 10.1016/j. psym.2011.03.001. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 43 3877443; fax: +31 43 3875444. E-mail address: a.leentjens@np.maastrichtuniversity.nl (A.F.G. Leentjens). Keywords: Psychosomatic Medicine; Consultation Psychiatry; Liaison Psychiatry; Consensus, Guideline In 2008, the board of the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) council commissioned the creation of a task force to study consensus-based summaries of core roles, scope of clinical practice, and basic competencies for psychiatrists 0022-3999/$ - see front matter © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2011.02.008 Journal of Psychosomatic Research 70 (2011) 486 – 491