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An aspect of community psychiatry training: a senior registrar's experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. K. Shah
A. K. Shah*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3
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With the closure of large mental hospitals there is increasing emphasis on community psychiatry (Thornicroft & Bebbington, 1989) and a need for experience and training at all grades in this speciality. Some training aspects of an area of community psychiatry as experienced by a senior registrar are detailed.

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Trainees' Forum
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , July 1991 , pp. 424 - 425
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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