title: The psychiatric resident in the community.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., 21205, Baltimore, Md..
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Kern
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Jacobson