General Hospital Psychiatry and Undergraduate Medical Education
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Forces within and outside the field of medicine are impelling new trends in psychiatric services. One of the major trends seen during the last few decades is a change from "close" to "open" system of psychiatric care with a resultant change from traditional autocratic, seclusive mental hospital system to an "open" system with a wide range of flexibility. General hospital psychiatry is a part of this open system and is also an useful addition to traditional mental hospital system. Today general hospital psychiatry developing as a separate clinical speciality and is regarded as one of the more significant trends in present day psychiatry. According to Professor Cameron, a former President of World Psychiatry Association (1958) "the establishment of psychiatric unit in general hospital has done more to advance psychiatry than a single diagnostic or therapeutic discovery".
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