A legally informed clinician is one who possesses sufficient knowledge of mental health law
to recognize and address legal issues that arise in clinical practice. This article argues that …

The ideal outcome of a specialty education and training program in forensic psychiatry is, of
course, a reflection of the philosophy of the specialty program and its values, insofar as …

As exemplified by the career of Robert L. Sadoff, MD, the teaching roles of the forensic
psychiatrist are enacted in medical settings (with medical students, psychiatric residents …

While many law schools do not have a full-time psychiatrist on their faculties, this absence
does not lessen the need for law students to learn and understand principles of human …

Standards for Fellowship Programs in Forensic Psychiatry Page 1 Standards for Fellowship
Programs in Forensic Psychiatry A Report by The Joint Committee on Accreditation of Fellowship …

Forensic psychiatry may be defined as that subspecialty of psychiatry that deals with
individuals with mental or emotional difficulties who are involved in legal problems of either …

WHEN I BEGAN TEACHING and writing in the field of law and medicine in the 1960s, there
was little formalized course structure. Some old law school hands dismissed the subject as …

The clinical case conference has been a hallmark of undergraduate and graduate medical
education for decades and affords attendees the opportunity to hear about interesting and …

Forensic psychiatry is a diverse and rapidly expanding psychiatric subspecialty. This issue
of Academic Psychiatry contains six articles [1–6] related to training forensic psychiatrists …