Abstract Objective: The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
requires that general psychiatry residency training programs provide trainees with exposure …

Objective The growth of forensic psychiatry has spurred efforts to improve forensic psychiatry
training in general psychiatry residency. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical …

This study outlines current trends in the education of psychiatric residents in forensic
psychiatry. As general psychiatrists are more frequently confronted with issues pertaining to …

Psychiatric opinion as to a defendant's criminal responsibility is divided far less often than
press coverage suggests. Evaluations are influenced by the settings in which they occur, the …

The field of forensic mental health has grown exponentially in the past decades to include
forensic psychiatrists and psychologists serving as the primary experts to the court systems …

American general psychiatry residents are significantly involved in legal hearings related to
mental health. Training to become a psychiatrist involves considerable exposure to …

Methods A twelve-page questionnaire adapted from that of Brook, in Britain (6) was sent out
to all coordinators of psychiatric postgraduate education. Only the opinions of fourth-year …

Though instruction in ethics and forensic psychiatry is required of child and adolescent
psychiatry training programs, the nature of the education commonly provided is not known …

Results: Eighty-one per cent of the respondents indicated that they offered or were about to
offer interdisciplinary teaching programs in psychiatry and law for students, interns or …

Abstract focus on three major aspects of legal psychiatry and psychology: a description and
discussion of the major types of service programs currently in operation, various kinds of …