Innovative and Timely Approaches to Suicide Prevention in Medical Education
May 5, 2021 Academic Psychiatry
With the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an even greater interest in the mental health of health care workers and appropriate approaches to suicide prevention. In this Academic Psychiatry article, author Christine Yu Moutier highlights timely and innovative approaches to suicide prevention and the need to integrate suicide prevention into medical education.
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