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Medical Student Education in Psychiatry After Katrina: Disaster and Renewal

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 3450 Chestnut Street, Third Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70115, USA

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Townsend, M.H. Medical Student Education in Psychiatry After Katrina: Disaster and Renewal. Acad Psychiatry 31, 205–210 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.31.3.205

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