A relatively new and increasingly popular method of teaching interpersonal skills has been described. The method has been in operation for the past year in the Department of Psychiatry at Queen's University. Evaluation by forty-five fourth-year medical students of the year 1970–71 points to a very favourable student reaction to this method.
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