The clinical practice of psychiatry should incorporate a biopsychosocial model of illness, acknowledging both cultural and social influences on the patient's experience. Medical humanities include a number of academic disciplines that complement the clinical practice of psychiatry. The medical profession, including psychiatry, has a social responsibility to study the psychosocial context within...

BACKGROUND Medical school is recognized as a stressful environment that often exerts a negative effect on the academic performance, physical health, and psychological well-being of the student. METHOD Stress, coping, depression, and somatic distress were examined among 69 third-year students completing a psychiatry clerkship in 1992-93 at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. Stre...

there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

VERTIGEM POSTURAL FóbICA: UMA AbORdAGEM COGnITIVA-COMPORTAMEnTAL Clinical Psychologist, Graduate Student and Researcher of the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (UFRJ); MD, Msc. Graduate Student and Researcher of the Institute of Psychiatry, UFRJ; Ph.D., Associate Professor of Institute of Psychology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...

Han-Kyeong Lee Eun-Ho Lee Soon-Taeg Hwang Sang-Hwang Hong Ji-Hae Kim Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul; Depression Center, Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul; Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju; Department of Education, Chinju National ...

OBJECTIVES The authors aim to determine the attitudes of University of Nairobi, Kenya, medical students toward psychiatry. METHODS The study design was cross-sectional. Self-administered sociodemographic and the Attitudes Toward Psychiatry-30 items (ATP-30) questionnaires were distributed sequentially to every third medical student in his or her lecture theater before or immediately after the...

the relationship of job stress, depression and anxiety of   nursing staff of urmia university of medical sciences     r. khalilzadeh [1] , r. yavarian [2] , h.khalkhali [3]     abstract:   introduction: stress is assumed as mental under pressure in psychology. stress and consequently psychological imbalance occurs when a person is unable to manage or response to internal or external stimulators...

THIS book was first published twenty years ago and, with subsequent editions, it has become established as one of the standard introductions to psychiatry. By its very nature, psychiatry is a field still characterized by many uncertainties, yet the authors have been successful in presenting basic principles in a succinct and balanced manner. The introductory chapter is particularly valuable in ...