The Teaching of Psychiatry to Undergraduate Medical Students

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students

Developing large - group teaching in child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students Aaron

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

Developing large - group teaching in child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students - A survey in German-speaking countries

OBJECTIVE To conduct a survey about teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in German-speaking countries. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to the 33 academic departments of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. RESULTS All departments responded. For teaching knowledge, the methods most commonly re...

Teaching psychodynamic psychiatry to students on general medical rotations.

M students’ and physicians’ training is oriented toward rapid retrieval of information and the development of those clinical skills needed to make immediate interventions. Medical students’ education in the area of psychiatry is usually limited to a sixto eight-week rotation, where they are most often exposed to a view of mental function as a simple epiphenomenon of the activity of neurotransmi...