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Teaching old age psychiatry to medical undergraduates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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There are many different course designs for the teaching of old age psychiatry. It may be taught in blocks or spread over the undergraduate curriculum and/or integrated with either psychiatry or medicine for the elderly. Whichever approach is used, at the end of their undergraduate training, students should have the same core knowledge, skills and attitudes.

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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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