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Teaching Medical Students to Interview Psychiatric Patients
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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If medical students are to be effective in clinical practice they must acquire the skills needed to put patients with psychiatric problems at ease, to promote trust and confidence, and to elicit an accurate and relevant history. Unfortunately, there is considerable evidence that traditional methods of medical training fail to equip them with these essential skills.
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- Teaching Clinical Skills in Psychiatry
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- Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , December 1980 , pp. 188 - 190
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980
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