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Community psychiatry — a training experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Jane Naismith*
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow G53 7TU; Dumbarton, Argyll and Clyde
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The emphasis of psychiatric care is being moved from the large mental hospitals towards community-orientated care and there seems also to be a need for a shift in the training of psychiatrists to include greater emphasis on the special issues involved in this approach to service provision.

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