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Finding Common Ground: Educating General Psychiatry Residents About Forensic Psychiatry

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    Elizabeth Ford, Susan Gray & Bipin Subedi

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Ford, E., Gray, S. & Subedi, B. Finding Common Ground: Educating General Psychiatry Residents About Forensic Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 41, 783–788 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0688-2

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