PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Rotter, Merrill AU - Preven, David TI - Commentary: General Residency Training—the First Forensic Stage DP - 2005 Sep 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 324--327 VI - 33 IP - 3 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2005 Sep 01; 33 AB - Training in Forensic Psychiatry, as described by Dr. Pinals, requires the gaining of knowledge, expertise, and confidence as part of a process of professional transformation and identification with a new psychiatric role. Training in General Psychiatry does, however, include placing the resident in situations and roles that are either formally forensic in nature, or at least, forensic-like. We will argue that these experiences from general training can be used by forensic supervisors to help ease the resident into the forensic role by building on the resident's existing expertise and making the forensic environment less foreign.