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Attitudes toward issues in psychiatry among third-year residents: a brief survey

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.6.732

The authors surveyed 378 third-year psychiatric residents on their attitudes toward psychiatric training, forms of psychotherapy, and the medical model; their treatment preferences for 4 given psychiatric disorders; and their career plans. Correlation coefficients and analysis of variance indicated clustering of attitudes along a dynamic- biological continuum, with medical education and experience with drug therapy rated highest of the training aspects and personal analysis or psychotherapy, training in psychoanalysis, and research rated lowest.

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