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      Evaluating the Impact of an Innovative Public Speaking Competition to Promote Psychiatry as a Career Option for Ghanaian Medical Students.

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          The psychiatrist workforce has been identified as an area in need of development, especially in low- to middle-income countries. The purpose of this project is to assess the perceptions of Ghanaian medical students of a novel mental health inter-medical school speaking competition on career interest in psychiatry and mental health education and advocacy.

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          Journal
          Acad Psychiatry
          Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1545-7230
          1042-9670
          Apr 2019
          : 43
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. agyapong@ualberta.ca.
          [2 ] Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Canada. agyapong@ualberta.ca.
          [3 ] University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
          [4 ] Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Canada.
          [5 ] Tempo School, Edmonton, Canada.
          [6 ] Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
          [7 ] Ghana Mental Health Authority, Accra, Ghana.
          [8 ] University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.
          [9 ] University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
          [10 ] St Patrick's Mental Health Services, Dublin, Ireland.
          Article
          10.1007/s40596-018-0986-3
          10.1007/s40596-018-0986-3
          30267363
          ecb44f76-7896-4af6-8e04-6a1859c35546
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