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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.10.1404

The authors describe a teaching program for first-Year medical students that uses videotape and simulated patients. The program helps students acquire the skills necessary for good professional relationships with patients, overcome anxieties in confronting patients, adopt a comfortable professional self-image, and begin involvement in clinical medicine in order to facilitate inter-relationships between preclinical and clinical sciences.

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