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Original Article

Change in attitudes to psychiatry and intention to pursue psychiatry as a career in newly qualified doctors: a follow-up of two cohorts of medical students

Rachel Maidment Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Gill Livingston Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, London, UK
,
Cornelius Katona Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent, London, UK
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Monica McParland Adult Department, The Tavistock Centre, London, UK
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Lorraine Noble Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Pages 565-569 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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