A model to determine the influence of medical school on studentsʼ career choices

Weissman, Sidney; Haynes, Robert; Killian, Charles D.; Robinowitz, Carolyn B.

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“…The attitudes of medical students are formed as the results of interactions between multiple factors including academic environment (51), sociocultural circumstances (31), individual experiences (52), and methods of teaching (clerkship). Psychiatry clerkship is often perceived as a critical factor that shapes the physicians’ attitude toward patients with mental illness.…”

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The Effect of Clinical Exposure to Patients on Medical Students’ Attitude Towards Mental Illness

Amini

Shoar

Tabatabaee

et al. 2016

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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BackgroundStigma of mental disorders causes a reduction in seeking help from the health care professionals and is evident across the world.ObjectivesThe current study aimed to compare medical students’ attitude towards mental illness after two different psychiatry clerkships in terms of the level of clinical exposure to patients with mental illness.Patients and MethodsThrough a quasi-experimental study, all of the 4th-year medical students were invited to enroll this study conducted in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). They were non-randomly assigned into two different psychiatry clerkships from January 2009 to January 2010. One group was enrolled in the traditional lecture-based course (low-exposure) while the second group participated in a novel method with increased hours of patient exposure (high-exposure). Attitude towards mental illness (AMI) was measured by a 22-item questionnaire before and after the clerkship and data were compared between the two groups in terms of changing attitude towards mental illness in five different categories.ResultsA total of 211 participants were enrolled in the study (115 female) of which 115 students (54.5%) were in low-exposure group and 96 students (45.5%) in the high-exposure group. Generally, AMI scores did not differ between the two groups and did not show any significant changes before and after the psychiatry clerkship. The only exceptions to this were AMI4 category (the concept of etiology of the mental illness), which significantly improved after the clerkship in the low-exposure (P = 0.011) and the high-exposure groups (P = 0.024), respectively.ConclusionsExposure of medical students to patients with mental illness did not improve attitude towards mental illness and psychiatric conditions.

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The Effect of Clinical Exposure to Patients on Medical Students’ Attitude Towards Mental Illness

Amini

Shoar

Tabatabaee

et al. 2016

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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“…Furthermore, students' attitudes influence their choice of medical specialty. The recruitment of psychiatric trainees also depends on their positive view of this specialty (Pan et al 1990;Weissman et al 1994). Attitudes towards psychiatry are supposedly formed during the undergraduate training.…”

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Influence of educational programs on attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry: Effects of psychiatric experience, gender, and personality dimensions

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Background: Attitudes of medical students form the basis for medical actions. Because of the specific characteristics of psychiatric patients, positive attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry should be a higher goal in medical education. Aim: We hypothesize that medical students in different educational programs develop different attitudes towards psychiatry. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, students enrolled in different educational programs completed the 'attitudes towards psychiatry' questionnaire (ATP-30). Data concerning experiences in psychiatry, personality traits and socio-demographic variables including gender were also analyzed. Results: The response rate of students in the PBL-curriculum (n ¼ 61) was >90%, in the traditional curriculum (n ¼ 280) >75%. Attitudes towards psychiatry of male students in the Problem-Based Learning program were equal to the female students' attitudes in both programs. Female students' attitudes in the traditional curriculum reached comparably good results while male students' displayed the worst attitudes.The personality factors 'openness to experience' and 'agreeableness' correlated significantly with positive attitudes towards psychiatry. PBL-students showed significantly more 'openness to experience'. Conclusion: Educational programs might play a role for the development of attitudes towards psychiatry, especially in male students. Factors influencing enrollment into special educational programs should also have been taken into account. An independent study with a larger number of participants will be required to support these findings.

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“…Furthermore, students' attitudes influence their choice of specialty field. The recruitment of trainee psychiatrists also depends on a positive view of the specialty (Pan et al, 1990;Weissman et al, 1994). Therefore, the four main foci of interest of medical education research in psychiatry have been:…”

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Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry

Kuhnigk¹,

Strebel²,

Schilauske³

et al. 2006

Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract

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A positive education experience as well as personal experience increases the probability of a positive student attitude towards psychiatry. In order to assure adequate care for the mentally ill, it should be a fundamental aim of medical education to promote positive attitudes towards the mentally ill and psychiatry. It remains to be investigated, however, whether an improvement in the attitudes of students towards the psychiatry discipline is sufficient to increase the number of students who would like to become psychiatrists or whether other factors are more deciding such as career opportunities, conditions of further education, or income potential.

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A model to determine the influence of medical school on studentsʼ career choices

Abstract: The findings point to one way of understanding better the influence of a medical school on its students' career choices. By using this model, each specialty may be able to develop studies to examine the complex interactions between students and specific medical schools.

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The Effect of Clinical Exposure to Patients on Medical Students’ Attitude Towards Mental Illness

The Effect of Clinical Exposure to Patients on Medical Students’ Attitude Towards Mental Illness

Influence of educational programs on attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry: Effects of psychiatric experience, gender, and personality dimensions

Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry

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