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.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 tehran (tehran, shah...

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...

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 ...

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...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of initial interest, pre-clerkship experiences, clerkship experiences, and enrichment activities on choosing a career in psychiatry. METHOD Residents in psychiatry at the authors' medical school completed a survey that examined each of these factors in relation to career choice. RESULTS Thirty participants ranked initial interest as the most influential fa...

OBJECTIVE There is a projected shortage of psychiatrists in Canada in forthcoming years. This study assessed factors in medical school education that are associated with students selecting psychiatry first and matching as a discipline. METHOD The Canadian Organization of Undergraduate Psychiatry Educators (COUPE) conducted telephone interviews and sent e-mail questionnaires to the 17 medical ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a new psychiatry clerkship curriculum which was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of medical students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums), iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted in two consecutive semesters from february 2009 to january 2010. in total, 167 medical students participated i...

MEDiCAL STUDEnT CLERKSHip in pSYCHiATRY The significance of the psychiatry clerkship in medical student education is broadly and internationally recognized (1). In the United States, all 126 allopathic medical schools oblige their students to complete a clinical clerkship in psychiatry (2). In medical schools in the United States, the length of this clerkship is 4–6 weeks (3–5). According to th...