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The Association for Academic Psychiatry annually hosts a medical student essay contest under the theme “The Art of Communication in Psychiatry: Connecting with the Patient.” The author of the winning essay receives free registration to the association’s annual meeting and up to US$1000 in reimbursement for travel and related expenses. Academic Psychiatry congratulates the 2016 winner, Andrew Tuck, a first-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who presented this essay in San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 21–24, 2016.
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Tuck, A. Psychiatry, Connecting with Patients, and the Art of Failure. Acad Psychiatry 40, 950–952 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0622-z
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