Throughout the history of Highland Hospital, there have been many different programs to instruct in the field of psychiatry. In the early years, there was a hospital training school for nurses. As an outcome of wartime mobilization in 1941, the hospital’s undergraduate training school for nurses generated almost as much revenue as patient care. Despite the financial success of this program, the school closed because it was unable to conform to the standards set by the Duke School of Nursing and the national nursing association.
As Highland Hospital became more integrated with the Duke University Medical Center, the hospital’s research efforts and educational programs developed as complements to the work of the Department of Psychiatry. A three-year Duke residency training program at Highland Hospital, accredited in 1972, was the second program that largely functioned independent of the Durham residency program.
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