The Child Psychiatric Clinic in Undergraduate Medical Training

[Undergraduate psychiatric training in Turkey].

OBJECTIVE The current trend in medical education is to abandon the experience-based traditional model and embrace the competency-based education model (CBE). The basic principle behind CBE is standardization. The first step in standardization is to determine what students must know, what they must accomplish, and what attitude they should display, and the establishment of educational goals. One...

Importance of Undergraduate Psychiatric Training

The basic purpose of teaching and training at undergraduate level is to prepare medical graduates to serve better at primary health care level. The patients with physical illness have concomitant emotional problems requiring professional handling, therefore teaching of psychiatry at undergraduate level becomes even more relevant and essential. The main aim of primary health care is to de-profes...

The educational value of inpatient psychiatric training in undergraduate medical education

The core psychiatry clerkship, typically held during the third year of medical school, serves as the primary opportunity for medical students to gain exposure to the clinical practice of psychiatry. Multiple studies have evaluated the effect that the clerkship has on students, and a clear body of evidence indicates that the clerkship influences students’ attitudes towards the field of psychiatr...

Understanding the importance of dermatology training in undergraduate medical education

Students are presented with vast amounts of medical information prior to clinical training. Students learn anatomy of the body, physiology of the heart, and the inner workings of the nervous system. Yet, dermatology has become an increasingly overlooked aspect of medical school curricula in the preclinical years. Many schools fail to offer a dermatology course, and those that do often fail to a...

Medical training in psychiatric residency: the PGY-1 experience.