Considerable dissatisfaction of students and educators exists in regard to the teaching of psychiatry in medical school. This paper recommends that the liaison model of teaching directed to house and attending staffs be applied to the teaching of medical students during their clerkships throughout the general hospital, with a concomitant de-emphasis of training solely on the psychiatric service.
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