Despite the increasing importance of gerontology to medical practice, it has been difficult to incorporate it into the curriculum of most medical schools. The aim of this project was to explore the feasibility of introducing gerontology into medical education by utilizing the framework of an existing clinical program. A gerontologist used the structure and resources of a Psychiatry Consultation...

Antidepressant medications can cause numerous types of sexual dysfunction. It is important to screen for and treat antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction, which is often under-reported and may exacerbate mood symptoms and negatively affect relationships and medication adherence. Management strategies include watchful waiting, reducing the antidepressant dose, adding a different type of antid...

Background: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching methods to clinical clerkship students (CCS) at our institution was switched mainly online method. The purpose this study determine cognitive changes enrichment CCS Department Psychiatry, Faculty Medicine, Udayana University during pandemic.
 Methods: This is a descriptive, observational study. We compared two sets students: class 2016...

Thirty six young doctors who as medical students had been randomly allocated to either video feedback training or conventional teaching in interviewing skills during a psychiatry clerkship were reassessed five years later. Each doctor interviewed one patient with a psychiatric illness and two with a physical illness. Each interview was rated independently. Both groups had improved since the fou...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A survey in 2005 determined the hours of mandatory geriatrics content in Canadian undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula. The present survey was undertaken to update these data for 2008-9. METHODS A survey was sent to a designated geriatrician at each medical school. RESULTS The mandatory geriatrics content of the undergraduate curricula ranged between 10 an...

PURPOSE Students compete aggressively as they prepare for the MCAT and fulfill traditional premedical requirements that have uncertain educational value for medical and scientific careers and limit the scope of their liberal arts and biomedical education. This study assessed the medical school performance of humanities and social science majors who omitted organic chemistry, physics, and calcul...

OBJECTIVE This research explored the assessment of self-directed learning readiness within the comprehensive evaluation of medical students' knowledge and skills and the extent to which several variables predicted participants' self-directed learning readiness prior to their graduation. METHODS Five metrics for evaluating medical students were considered in a multiple regression analysis. Fou...

BACKGROUND The aging population requires an improvement in physicians' attitudes, knowledge, and skills, regardless of their specialty. This study aimed to identify attitude changes of University of Toronto pre-clerkship medical students towards geriatrics after participation in a Geriatric Clinical Skills Day (GCSD). METHODS This was a before and after study. The GCSD consisted of one large ...