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Including International Medical Graduates in Global Mental Health Training

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    Bibhav Acharya

  2. Shared Minds, a non-profit organization, Boston, MA, USA

    Soniya Hirachan

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Bibhav Acharya was supported by a NIMH (R25MH060482-14) grant during the development of the GMH program at UCSF. Soniya Hirachan reports no funding for this work. Neither received any funding from Shared Minds for their work or this submission.

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Acharya, B., Hirachan, S. Including International Medical Graduates in Global Mental Health Training. Acad Psychiatry 40, 732–733 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-015-0454-2

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