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Published Online: June 1973

"Credentials Consciousness": Stimulus for Continuing Education and Peer Review in Psychiatry

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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The author surveys various issues related to continuing education in psychiatry, including the delineation of "credentialing" as a stimulus to the kind of quality control that the health care system seems to be moving toward. He considers the patient-management approach to identifying professional competence the most effective means of implementing continuing education; this approach is relevant to peer review and effective delivery of mental health services.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 653 - 657
PubMed: 4701954

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Published in print: June 1973
Published online: 1 April 2006

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DONALD H. NAFTULIN
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Continuing Education Division, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90033

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