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Undergraduate Training in Mental Handicap

Section for the Psychiatry of Mental Handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Changing concepts of care mean that all doctors, whatever their specialty, will have increasing contact with the mentally handicapped in their day to day practice. It is therefore essential that the amount of time devoted to this topic in medical schools is substantially increased and the nature of training radically reviewed to provide adequate clinical experience. There is evidence that medical students would welcome this.

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