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Personality Correlates of a Career Interest in Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. J. Walton
H. J. Walton*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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Future psychiatrists are likely to be recruited from the segment of the medical student body expressing an interest in psychiatry as a future career. This investigation deals with the personality differences found in students according to their positive or negative attitude to psychiatry.

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Personality Disorders and Personality Measurements
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 519 , February 1969 , pp. 211 - 219
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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