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Academic psychiatry in the Deep South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tariq Mahmood*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand
Sarah Romans
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand
*
Correspondence
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Abstract

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Summary

To highlight the problems in the delivery of psychiatric services in rural New Zealand. We describe the innovative collaboration between the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin and the Southland Hospital in Invercargill.

Clinical implications

Forging of academic links between the regional medical schools and rural hospitals is one way of delivering specialist psychiatric services in rural areas.

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Copyright
Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Footnotes

1

Presented at ‘Rural Health – The Challenge Beyond the Year 2000’, 14–16 May 1998, Invercargill, New Zealand.

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