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The Public Health Approach to Reducing Suicide: Opportunities for Curriculum Development in Psychiatry Residency Training Programs

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The authors review the current status of suicide prevention curricula in psychiatry training programs, describe the public health approach to suicide prevention, discuss public health strategies for reducing suicides and the unique role played by psychiatrists with respect to suicide prevention, and offer public health-oriented suicide prevention curriculum guidelines for psychiatry residents.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Nicole M. Lindsay, B.S. and Shirley Duglin Kennedy, M.A. (LIS) for their contributions to the final editing and formatting of this manuscript.

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  1. American Association of Suicidology, Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Michelle M. Cornette

  2. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Amy E. Schlotthauer, Jon S. Berlin & David C. Clark

  3. Center for Deployment Psychology, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Lisa M. French

  4. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Melissa L. Miller

  5. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Heidi M. Pfeiffer

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Cornette, M.M., Schlotthauer, A.E., Berlin, J.S. et al. The Public Health Approach to Reducing Suicide: Opportunities for Curriculum Development in Psychiatry Residency Training Programs. Acad Psychiatry 38, 575–584 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-014-0127-6

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