Teaching psychiatry in general practice.
Clinical psychiatry in Australia has predominantly been taught to undergraduates through hospital based attachments. In response to rapid increases in medical student numbers at the University of Western Australia, the School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care began a collaboration with an outer urban hospital to integrate community general practice based psychiatry with a hospital based clinical attachment and to improve educational capacity at the hospital.
Primary Health Care, Outer Urban Clinical School (Joondalup), School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care, University of Western Australia. alistair.vickery@uwa.edu.au
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