scholarly journals The role of the clinical tutor – a personal experience

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Area North ◽  
The University

The role of the clinical tutor may differ from that set out in the helpful guidelines given by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It may differ depending on the setting of the training for instance. I was made clinical tutor some three and a half years ago for a large, mainly rural area – North Wales. The area does not have its own medical school, but is associated with the University of Wales College of Medicine, at Cardiff, some 150 miles away.

scholarly journals Stigma towards psychiatry: correlating personal experience with existing literature

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S126-S127
Author(s):  
Jack Blake ◽  
George El-Nimr
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Clinical Placement ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
University Life

AimsStigma towards psychiatry feels rife within medical school and this extends from university life into clinical placements. Mental health remains an unattractive area of medicine and is frequently regarded as subpar by other specialists. Against existing literature, this study compares the authors first hand experiences over the last five years within medical school to evaluate how representative their experiences of stigma in psychiatry are for the wider community and published literature. The study aims to inform the wider discussion on this topic and offer areas where intervention may yield a better perception and hence uptake of this specialism.MethodLiterature review relating to the topic was completed. Studies pertaining to medical students and/or educators views and experiences of psychiatric medical education and clinical placement were included for discussion. A reflection on the first author's specific experiences to date of psychiatry and his intent to pursue psychiatric career was conducted, with careful reference to existing literature. This allowed validating personal experiences in light of shared experience within the medical community in various national and international settings.ResultArguably, some non-psychiatric clinicians do inadvertently set the scene early in medical school for the stigma that is to be thrust upon students. This builds upon prospective students ranking psychiatry low for satisfaction, prestige and stating it to be a ‘pseudoscience’ or words to that effect. The lack of understanding from junior medical students of the role of the psychiatrist sees them associating psychosocial education as equivalent to psychiatry. This reinforces the idea of psychiatry being grounded in sciences other than anatomy, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology. On clinical placement, there is little cross-speciality support for those students who want to be psychiatrists and sometimes even lost opportunities for those publically aspiring towards psychiatry. Placements in psychiatry give students a better understanding of psychiatry but this does not seem to significantly change their career aspirations and this is rather defined from the admission stages.ConclusionAfter comparing experience with literature, stigma towards psychiatry appears to be universal. It may be important to consider the types of students who are being attracted to medical school as currently students seem to have an intrinsic disinterest in psychiatry despite later becoming better informed through psychiatric placement. Culture is notoriously hard to change, particularly within medicine. This stigma exists both in the lay and medical communities with early potentially inaccurate lay views of psychiatry being validated and reinforced throughout medical school.

scholarly journals Thomas Graham Brown, 1882-1965

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reflex Movement ◽  
The University ◽  
Edinburgh Medical

Thomas Graham Brown was a neurophysiologist well known in the twenties for the detailed studies of reflex movement and posture which he made by Sherrington’s methods, and perhaps better known in the thirties as the redoubtable climber who had found several new routes to the summit of Mont Blanc. He was born in 1882 in Edinburgh. His father, Dr J. J. Graham Brown, was to be President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1912 and was related to several of the eminent doctors who had maintained the reputation of the Edinburgh Medical School throughout the nineteenth century. It was natural therefore that the son should be trained to medicine and should go to his father’s school, the Edinburgh Academy, and afterwards to the University as a medical student. There were four children in the family, Thomas, the eldest, a brother who became a Captain in the Royal Navy, one who became an architect and one sister. The two elder boys used sometimes to sail with their father in the yacht which he shared with a friend, and in Thomas the interest revived when he was too old for climbing but could still make long cruises in a small motor boat. When he was a schoolboy he was fond of swimming and diving, skating and golf, but there was a period when his eyesight was troublesome and he was sent to an oculist friend of his father in Wiesbaden to be treated and to learn German.

The role of the medical students in influenza pandemic response

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Waight, MD ◽  
Abeba Berhane, MD ◽  
Lorenzo Orton, MD ◽  
Sandro Cinti, MD ◽  
John E. Billi, MD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Specific Patient ◽  
Michigan Medical School ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
Pandemic Flu ◽  
The University

Objectives: To better define the role of the medical students in the event of a disaster requiring a surge response in healthcare systems.Setting: The University of Michigan Medical School and Health System, where staffing plans for a pandemic flu were actively taking place.Subjects: All medical students at the University of Michigan.Interventions: The authors surveyed medical students to evaluate how they felt they could contribute during a pandemic flu.Results: Of the students who completed the survey, 88 percent of the respondents felt that students should formally be incorporated into the health system’s staffing plan during a pandemic. This survey further identified the specific patient care tasks that students felt comfortable performing, which may be of value to medical school and hospital administration that are considering inclusion of medical students into their pandemic planning.Conclusions: There should be formal inclusion of medical students into health systems’ staffing plans in the case of pandemic flu, as they are valuable first responders who are both willing and able to participate in the pandemic response.

Recruitment into psychiatry

2002 ◽  
Vol 180 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian F. Brockington ◽  
David B. Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Undergraduate Training ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Medical Graduates ◽  
Foreign Medical Graduates ◽  
Before And After

BackgroundDespite improvements in psychiatric teaching, British medical schools have never produced enough graduands aiming for psychiatry.AimsTo inform the strategy for improving recruitment.MethodA literature review.ResultsThe number of psychiatrists required depends on the role of psychiatry, which is constantly changing. The present requirement is about 250–300 per year, including replacements and new posts. The number of psychiatric trainees has always been higher than expected from the career plans of newly qualified doctors, but the number of British graduates passing the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Membership examination has still fallen short, requiring a supplement of foreign medical graduates. The recent 50% expansion in medical students may make this country self-sufficient.ConclusionsTo improve recruitment, the College should focus on influences before and after undergraduate training – the kind of student entering medical school and the factors favouring sustained psychiatric practice after graduation.

scholarly journals The value foundations of the university teacher’s orientation towards the implementation of personality oriented education ideas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-298
Author(s):  
Anzhelika N. Tsepkova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
The University

The paper substantiates the importance of the implementation of personality-oriented education in higher education. The author reveals specifics of personality-oriented education at the university, an integral component of which is subjectivity. The author substantiates the legitimacy of extrapolating the ideas of personality-oriented education, the implementation of which is effective in a secondary school, to the university educational process and proposes the formulation of these ideas in relation to the university: the idea of recognizing a particular students personality value; development of the students personal experience; the ascent of the student to culture. The role of a university teacher in the implementation of personality-oriented education ideas in the process of interaction with students is revealed and the need to identify the value foundations of the university teachers orientation towards the implementation of such ideas is substantiated. The author considers that knowledge has a direct impact on human morality, the development of which is carried out through the choice of values and their subsequent appropriation by a person. The author also reveals the role of the teachers moral consciousness in understanding the value foundations of the orientation towards the implementation of personality-oriented education ideas. An example of determining the value foundations of personality-oriented education idea as the recognition of the value of a particular students personality is given and it is substantiated that this value basis is the value of good. The author proves that it is possible to assess the implementation of personality-oriented education ideas according to moral criteria, in the role of which are the values that take on the meaning as values for oneself and for another, the concepts of morality good, duty, mercy, justice, honor. It is substantiated that the axiological space of the university filled with values, the meaning of which is acquired by the concepts of morality, can become a means of teachers orientation towards the implementation of personality-oriented education ideas.

Role of Open Surgery

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Anselmo ◽  
L. Maccatrozzo ◽  
G. Tuccitto ◽  
M. Mangano ◽  
F. Pagano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Endoscopic Treatment ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Open Surgery ◽  
Retrospective Studies ◽  
Prostatic Hypertrophy ◽  
The University ◽  
Joint Experience

According to anatomo-morphologic studies, the authors define the role of open surgery in enucleating an adenoma, which is only partially removed with endoscopy, especially if large. Retrospective studies also show a higher probability of a further operation after endoscopy rather than after surgery, with a greater mortality risk due to cardiovascular reasons. In the four-year period from 1987–90, the joint experience of the University Urological Clinics of Padua and Brescia and the Hospital Urological Departments of Bergamo and Treviso, shows that out of 3851 operations, endoscopic treatment was carried out in 84% and surgery in 16%, with a marked prevalence of retropubic adenomectomy (84% of cases). 1989 was taken as a sample year and surgery was performed in 160 out of 935 cases, with excellent results in 87% of the patients. The authors, on the basis of their personal experience, results and literature, confirm that surgical treatment of prostatic hypertrophy is still valid.

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