SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH

As specialist services are insufficient to meet the needs of the people, especially in rural areas, the training of medical and paramedical health staff through short courses in psychiatry has been recommended in the National Mental Health Program. A two week orientation course in mental health has...

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Autor principal: Devi, Satyavathi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743613
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spelling pubmed-29784632011-07-08 SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH Devi, Satyavathi Indian J Psychiatry Original Article As specialist services are insufficient to meet the needs of the people, especially in rural areas, the training of medical and paramedical health staff through short courses in psychiatry has been recommended in the National Mental Health Program. A two week orientation course in mental health has been recommended for general physicians, including those working at the dispensary level. This paper focuses on the experience of imparting such training to 91 medical officers in a general hospital psychiatric unit. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2978463/ /pubmed/21743613 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title_full SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title_fullStr SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title_full_unstemmed SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title_short SHORT TERM TRAINING OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN MENAL HEALTH
title_sort short term training of medical officers in menal health
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