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Some aspects of learning, supervision, and identity formation in the psychiatric residency

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“The beginning psychiatric resident...is confronted with a highly complex, and often ambiguous and contradictory, setting.”

After a thorough review of the literature, the author offers 12 suggestions for improving the working conditions of the neophytes who usually must try their wings on the sickest patients.

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His article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Western Divisional Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Seattle, Washington, August 25–27, 1969.

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Hamilton, J.W. Some aspects of learning, supervision, and identity formation in the psychiatric residency. Psych Quar 45, 410–422 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574282

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