Abstract
Psychiatric residency training programs rarely prepare residents for exposure to the media. Increasingly, however, physicians are called upon to disseminate current knowledge about a wide range of topics pertinent to mental health and illness. The authors describe a model seminar used in a psychiatric residency training program providing residents with skills in effective communication through the mass media. The goal of the seminar is to prepare residents for an important role in public health psychiatry.
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Kutner, L., Beresin, E.V. Media Training for Psychiatry Residents. Acad Psychiatry 23, 227–232 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03340062
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