Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 139-147 , February 2008

Child Psychiatry Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education

  • MICHAEL GIFFORD SAWYER, Ph.D., M.B.B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Michael Sawyer, Research and Evaluation Unit, Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
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  • FEMKE GIESEN, M.Sc.
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  • GARRY WALTER, M.D., Ph.D.

,Accepted 30 August 2007.

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 This study was funded by the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. The authors thank Pru McEvoy, Jenny Clark, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments, and Nerissa Soh for assistance with the literature search.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62284-X

doi: 10.1097/chi.0b013e31815cd9e0

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 139-147 , February 2008

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