Teaching of Psychiatry to Medical Students

Teaching attitudes in psychiatry in Australasian medical schools

“…Whatever the case, the factor stresses the significance of physical, psychological, and social factors in both the aetiology and management of psychiatric illness. Romano (1961) sums up this factor of eclecticism and pragmatism in his list of teaching objectives in undergraduate psychiatry, when he states that there is a 'need to understand how the concepts of health and disease have developed from primitive animistic and more recent single-cause ideas to modern views of multiple causes and effects.. . '.…”

Teaching Psychodynamic Aspects of Psychiatry to Medical Students

“…These problems have been discussed by Hill (1963) and Ellis (1963) and the students’ attitudes have been investigated by Walton, Drewery, and Carstairs (1963). Various schemes designed to provide an integrated teaching programme have been described, including a comprehensive medical‐psychiatric training scheme in use at Rochester, New York (Romano, 1961; Kehoe, 1961) and the programme developed in this country at University College Hospital (Tredgold, 1962). The need to teach students something about the doctor‐patient relationship has been stressed particularly by Balint (1957; 1961).…”

Training in the counseling and therapeutic practices: Requiem or reveille?

“…Rather than ultimate concern with client outcome variables, an analysis of the training literature, in general, in all of the helping professions suggests an interesting analogue of personality and process. Medical educators (Lester, Gussen, Yamamoto, & West, 1962;Romano, 1961, Schwartz & Abel. 1955Ward, 1962, Wolberg, 1954 in the great majority focus primarily upon the more pedagogic dimension of "shaping" behavior in training and treatment to develop "rational understanding."…”