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More and less experienced aerospace medicine physicians were assessed on professional skills (diagnosis, management, administration, doctor-patient relationship) and conceptual skills (organism/biological system, personality system, sociocultural system) using a Psychiatric Knowledge Usefulness Questionnaire and a Psychiatric Knowledge Assessment Questionnaire. The more experienced clinicians were more interested in psychiatry and thought it more important than did the less experienced group. Specific interests and self-assessed abilities are easily obtained from these instruments.
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The research reported in this paper was conducted by personnel of the Clinical Sciences Division, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Aerospace Medical Division, AFSC, United States Air Force, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. The assistance of Mr. W. Jackson of the USAFSAM Data Sciences Division is gratefully acknowledged.
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Ursano, R.J. Psychiatric Education of Nonpsychiatrist Physicians. Acad Psychiatry 5, 329–339 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399826
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