Training the Woman Resident To Be a Psychiatrist
ELISSA P. BENEDEK M.D.1
1 Associate Director for Training and Education, York Woods Center, Ypsilanti State Hospital, 3501 Willis Rd., Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197
The author focuses on the problems of the woman resident and draws upon her own experience to illustrate her point that women are not accorded the same consideration as other minorities and that, for women, the residency period may be one of loneliness and misunderstanding. She observes that women have as much to learn from men as men from women and concludes that, if there are enough women staff members to make it possible, each woman and man in a residency program should have some personal supervisory experience with a woman staff supervisor.
