quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

OBJECTIVE To investigate rates of depression and suicidal ideation in medical students in mainland China and to explore wellness curricula and mental health services available to students. METHODS Second and third year medical students (N=348) at one medical school in mainland China completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Based on responses to the PHQ-9, students were labeled as...

OBJECTIVE Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are now present at most medical schools. Reports regarding SRFCs have focused on the infrastructure of established clinics, characteristics of the patient populations served, and their contribution to patient care. Few studies discuss their role in preventive medicine and even fewer discuss mental health care. This study examined the outcomes of a medi...

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...

1.Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden 2.Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden 3.Autism Centre for Young Children, Handicap and Habilitation, Stockholm, Sweden 4.Faculty of Medicine, Medical Student, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 5.PRIMA Child and Adolescent P...

Major depression is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. Although various treatment approaches exist, including pharmacological (eg, antidepressant agents), psychotherapeutic (eg, cognitivebehavioral therapy), and neuromodulatory (eg, electroconvulsive therapy [ECT]), a substantial number of patients do not adequately bene!t from or cannot tolerate these existing options. This has led t...

background: continuing medical education (cme) of general practitioners (gps) regarding most of the diseases, especially psychiatric disorders, is implementing worldwide to maintain and develop their knowledge, skills, and professional performance. we investigated the effects of cme on gps knowledge in the field of psychiatric disorders in dezful university of medical sciences (dums) as a newly...

The article by Kennedy & Belgamwar 1 nicely illustrates the importance of work experience in psychiatry for secondary school pupils. Unfortunately, this can be difficult to arrange in mental health trusts, despite recent guidance by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 2 Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) Medical Education Department recently joined forces with Bristol ...

The assessment and measurement of the mental state in patients suffering from a depressive illness is important both in clinical psychiatry and in research. Clinical assessment by an experienced psychiatrist, even when it is quantified on the basis of a rating scale (e.g. Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression) has the disadvantage of being dependent on the skill of the rater and on his clinica...

BACKGROUND Psychological stress is common in medical school and associated with depression. Medical education is grooming in Nepal, but only few studies are done concerning mental health of medical students. OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of depression among medical students at different levels of education and find about their stressors. METHODS A cross sectional, questionnaire-based s...