Who Wants to Become a Child Psychiatrist? Lessons for Future Recruitment Strategies From a Student Survey at Seven German Medical Schools

Abstract

The majority of the students surveyed showed a positive attitude toward CAP and considered CAP basic knowledge to be relevant for their future work. When designing recruitment strategies, it may be helpful to consider that CAP exposure early in the curriculum might be decisive and that students with previous clinical courses in this field, as well as female students, showed the highest interest in CAP as a possible career choice.

Dynamics of career choice among students in undergraduate medical courses. A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 33

“…voluntary or paid work) (Robbins et al 2011) are also mentioned as an important experience, as well as experiences in a student's personal life. For example, a psychiatric family member or acquaintances, positively influences a career choice for psychiatry (Lempp et al 2012;Baller et al 2013). Or illness yourself as a child (Bindal et al 2011), and the influence of a role model or mentor may affect your preference, this could be in a positive or negative way.…”

Child and adolescent psychiatry in the Far East

“…Our results showed that general psychiatry residents experienced CAP rotations during their postgraduate training in 12 of 17 countries and areas. Although we are not aware of any articles describing the benefit for CAP recruitment from CAP rotations during general psychiatry training, some articles report that early exposure to CAP didactics and clerkships for medical students increased their positive attitudes toward and resultant interest in this field …”

Wie kann auch zukünftig eine gute stationäre Versorgung im Fachgebiet Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie gewährleistet werden? Ein Diskussionsbeitrag aus deutscher Perspektive

“… Intensivierung der Rekrutierungsbemühungen im Kontext des Medizinstudiums. Hierzu gehören u. a. kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Lehrveranstaltungen, möglichst bereits in den ersten Semestern des Medizinstudiums [ 45 ] sowie das schon seit langem verfolgte Ziel der Verankerung des Faches Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in der Approbationsordnung [ 2 , 3 ] mit dem Ziel einer größeren Sichtbarkeit des Faches für Medizinstudenten. Auch der weitere Ausbau hochwertiger Lehrforschung in Deutschland erscheint dringend notwendig, da hier bisher nur sehr wenige wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse vorliegen und Studienergebnisse aus anderen Ländern (z.…”