April 1, 2003

Requiring a One-Week Addiction Treatment Experience in a Six-Week Psychiatry Clerkship: Effects on Attitudes Toward Substance-Abusing Patients

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Abstract

Spending 1 week of a 6-week psychiatry clerkship on an addiction treatment site increased regard for patients with alcoholism without adversely affecting measures of attitudes toward, and knowledge about, psychiatric patients.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd32ce7808b00a4799b6b3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1207/s15328015tlm1502_04

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