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The making of a psychiatrist: an Israeli perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Moshe Z. Abramowitz  and
Daphne Bentov-Gofrit
Moshe Z. Abramowitz
Affiliation:
Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Doar-Na Tzefon Yehuda, 90972, Israel, email: mosheabramowitz@yahoo.com; moshe.abramowitz@moh.health.gov.il
Daphne Bentov-Gofrit
Affiliation:
West Jerusalem Community Mental Health Clinic, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Israel
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When medical school educators – polished veteran doctors – review data on their students’ attitudes towards residencies, they remember their own long days in the anatomy dissection room. They recall treating their first teenage patient and comforting a patient seeking solace while succumbing to a fatal illness. They think about why they made their important career choice. Thus the glory days of medical school become a defining and shaping experience for physicians, similar to boot camp for veteran paratroopers.

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Thematic papers – Recruitment into psychiatry
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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2005

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