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The psychiatric resident in the community

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A program in the state of Maryland which introduces psychiatric residents to community psychiatry is described. Since 1958, 80 senior psychiatric residents worked one day a week for a year as psychiatric consultants to Maryland county health departments. The program embodies the principle of inductive education, introduced into American medicine by Franklin Paine Mall and transplanted here to the developing field of education for community psychiatry. Supervision is more consultative and supportive than didactic, and residents and program directors engage in a mutual educational endeavor. This method can adequately prepare psychiatrists for work in the community.

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  1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., 21205, Baltimore, Md.

    Howard M. Kern Jr. M.D. (associate professor of psychiatry, director of general practitioner education, American Psychiatric Association)

  2. Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA

    Wayne E. Jacobson M.D. (associate professor of mental hygiene, associate clinical professor of psychiatry)

  3. University of Maryland Psychiatric Institute, USA

    Wayne E. Jacobson M.D. (associate professor of mental hygiene, associate clinical professor of psychiatry)

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  1. Howard M. Kern Jr. M.D.
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Dr. Kern former director of the Maryland Training Program in Community Psychiatry.

The training program is supported by the Maryland State Department of Health and the Maryland State Department of Mental Hygiene.

An earlier version of this paper was read at the Southern Division meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Hollywood, Fla., October 1966.

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Kern, H.M., Jacobson, W.E. The psychiatric resident in the community. Community Ment Health J 5, 445–451 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01420030

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