Training psychiatrists in nonpsychiatric medicine: What do our patients and our profession need?

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Wright, Mark Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; PSYCHIATRIST;

CURRICULUM; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650165768     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.3.181     Document Type: Note

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