The Junior-Year Psychiatric Clerkship and Medical Students' Interest in Psychiatry

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Clardy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship

The Effects of Teaching Medical Students Psychotherapy Skills in the Outpatient Department

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Frank ◽  
Arthur Propst ◽  
Paul Goldhamer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
Outpatient Psychotherapy ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship

A psychiatric clerkship which emphasizes a clinical exposure to the conduct of outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy is described and evaluated. Compared to more traditional inpatient based clerkships, an outpatient psychotherapy-oriented clerkship attracts significantly greater numbers of students. In addition, medical students taking such a rotation rate its educational value on its completion significantly more positively compared to other clerkship sites. Finally, students taking the psychotherapy oriented clerkship opt for psychiatry as a specialty significantly more frequently than students taking the more traditional clerkships. The impact of such a learning experience on interpersonal skills with non-psychiatric, medical patients is also discussed.

The Effect of Psychiatric Clerkship on Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Psychiatry and Their Intention to Pursue Psychiatry as a Career

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
S.M. Samimi-Ardestani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Teaching Psychiatry ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship

Background:The attitudes of medical students toward psychiatry have been studied extensively in other countries. A positive attitude to psychiatry may make future doctors more responsive to the psychological needs and comorbidity of patients in all branches of medicine.Purpose:The purpose of this study was to examine whether attitudes toward psychiatry improved during psychiatric attachment as well as the relationship between attitudes to psychiatry and intention to pursue psychiatry as a career.Methods:On the first and last day of their psychiatric attachment 109 fifth year medical students of SBMU were asked to participate in the study. They completed a demographic form and “Attitude toward Psychiatry Questionnaire”. They also responded to two questions which measured their intention to pursue psychiatry as a prospective career.Results:Students had favorable attitude toward psychiatry before the attachment with mean score of 84.14 on Attitude to Psychiatry Questionnaire (neutral score 72). These attitudes become more positive after attachment. Students’ intention to pursue psychiatry as a career increased during attachment (t=-4.85 df =107 p=0.000). Improvement in attitudes was related to an increased intention to pursue psychiatry as a career (rho=0.170 n=109 p=0.032).Conclusions:The study confirms earlier reports of a significant positive impact of undergraduate psychiatric attachment on medical students’ attitudes toward psychiatry and their intention to pursue psychiatry. Thus, teaching psychiatry at an undergraduate level may well have important implications.

Medical students’ attitudes to mental illnesses and to psychiatry before and after the psychiatric clerkship: Training in a specialty and a general hospital

2017 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Economou ◽  
Kontantinos Kontoangelos ◽  
Lily Evangelia Peppou ◽  
Aikaterini Arvaniti ◽  
Maria Samakouri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship

The psychiatric clerkship: Its effect on medical students

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula F. Eagle ◽  
Luis R. Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship
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