iranian medical students' perception of psychiatry: before and after a psychiatry clerkship.

Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship

OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of Iran located in ...

Impact of a psychiatry clerkship on stigma, attitudes towards psychiatry, and psychiatry as a career choice

BACKGROUND Mental illnesses are a major public health problem around the world and the prevalence and burden of common mental disorders is growing. Psychiatry is an unpopular career choice for many medical students and this impacts negatively on the supply of psychiatrists to the workforce. The psychiatry clerkship can play an important role in influencing students' attitudes towards psychiatry...

Publication of Iranian Textbook for Psychiatry

Use of a computerized evaluation system in a psychiatry clerkship.

OBJECTIVE Paper-based evaluations of medical students on clerkships are inefficient and time consuming to compile and analyze. To improve the evaluation process, the authors developed a web-based program. METHODS A secure web-based system was designed to collect evaluations of students and their feedback about the clerkship. Acceptance, compliance, and impact of the web-based system on the cl...

Medical students' views about an undergraduate curriculum in psychiatry before and after clinical placements

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that medical students wish to focus their learning in psychiatry on general skills that are applicable to all doctors. This study seeks to establish what aspects of psychiatry students perceive to be relevant to their future careers and what psychiatric knowledge and skills they consider to be important. It is relevant to consider whether these expectations abou...

Attitudes of medical student towards psychiatry as their future job

Introduction. The number of Medical gratuates choosing careers in psychiatry is in decline. In order to determine whether this disinclination toward psychiatry occurs before versus during medical school, this study, surveyed medical students at the start of their freshman year and last year of Medical educations. Methods. 100 freshman medical students and 100 of interns from three medical sch...