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Psychiatric Training in America: Two Initial Impressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Janet Lawrence
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Boston
Peter A. Bick
Affiliation:
Upstate Medical Center, New York
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The last year has been a fascinating one for me as a British medical graduate in many ways, constituting, as it did, my introduction to both American culture and a career in psychiatry. I have just completed my first year of a three-year psychiatric training programme (residency) at Harvard Medical School, roughly equivalent to a combined SHO and registrar training in Britain.

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