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THE USE OF PRIVATE PATIENTS FOR PSYCHIATRIC TEACHING IN A MEDICAL SCHOOL

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.649

It is our belief that the teaching of undergraduate psychiatry should be directed toward equipping a general practitioner to satisfactorily deal with the most common types of psychiatric disorders that ordinarily do not require care in a psychopathic hospital. A means of accomplishing this objective by the almost exclusive use of private patients for case material during the senior year has been described.

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