Undergraduate Medical Education in Psychiatry - Are We Meeting the Demands?1

Psychiatry for tomorrow’s doctors: undergraduate medical education

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...

Challenges in child and adolescent psychiatric education.

An estimated 1 in 5 children (22%), which is about 20 million young people, have severe psychiatric disorders and are in need of expert evaluation and treatment (1). At this time, there are only 7,000 child and adolescent psychiatrists. Beyond the clinical needs that child and adolescent psychiatrists must address, child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) training directors are under tremendous pr...

Who Needs Psychiatry, Who Cares for Psychiatry ?

Sir, I was happy till recently about many progressive activities of our profession through out the country. For example, experiments done to develop community based psychiatric services; brain storming sessions conducted to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatric education. But today, I sit downcast, sharing the profession's collective guilt and responsibility for the recent fate suffered by t...

Psychiatry in the new undergraduate curriculum

Recognising the vast extent of psychiatric morbidity internationally and the burden of mental illness on people, communities and nations, the World Psychiatric Association and the World Federation for Medical Education have recently published global guidelines for developing core curricula in psychiatry for medical students (Walton & Gelder 1999). More locally, major changes are taking place in...