A Canadian community mental health program: a clerkship experience.
The authors describe a consultation-liaison relationship between a community psychiatry outpatient service and private community family practitioners, including some problems and solutions that have arisen as a result of this relationship. A medical student clerkship in this consultation-liaison setting is particularly useful in orienting students to community aspects of psychiatric care in primary care practice. Since 50% of medical students from McMaster University enter some form of primary care activity, this exposure and sensitization to community mental health activities is especially relevant.
D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012017:Referral and Consultation