RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Commentary: General Residency Training—the First Forensic Stage JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law SP 324 OP 327 VO 33 IS 3 A1 Rotter, Merrill A1 Preven, David YR 2005 UL http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.abstract 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.