scholarly journals Attitudes of Pre-clinical Medical Students towards Psychiatric Patients Before and After an Early Clinical Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e11-e15
Author(s):  
Abraham Rudnick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Male Student ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Early Clinical Experience ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes

Background:  Stigma or negative discriminatory attitudes towards psychiatric patients are common in the general public. These attitudes are also demonstrated by medical practitioners and by medical students, which can lead to medical harm to psychiatric patients. This study aimed to improve attitudes of medical students towards psychiatric patients before their clinical rotations.Methods:  Second year preclinical medical students participated in a brief structured early clinical experience which involved introduction to a psychiatric patient in a hospital/clinic setting or in a community vocational setting. Students were randomized to either setting. Data were collected one week before, one week after, and 3 months after the early clinical experience by administering the Medical Condition Regard Scale.Results:  The students’ attitudes towards psychiatric patients improved, particularly at follow up. Only male student attitudes improved significantly.Conclusion:  Further study is required to understand and improve medical students’ attitudes towards psychiatric patients, perhaps particularly in relation to female students’ attitudes.

Medical Students’ Attitudes Towards a Career in Psychiatry before and after Viewing a Promotional DVD

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Robertson ◽  
Garry Walter ◽  
Nerissa Soh ◽  
Glenn Hunt ◽  
Michelle Cleary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Modest Improvement ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Scientific Foundation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The University

Objectives: The objectives were, first, to determine attitudes towards psychiatry as a career among medical students currently enrolled at the University of Sydney and, second, to establish the immediate impact on those attitudes of a promotional DVD, released by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Method: Medical students enrolled in the University of Sydney in 2008 were invited to complete a voluntary online questionnaire, in which their attitudes towards psychiatry were explored, and the immediate effects of a 15-minute DVD were ascertained. Results: A total of 123 students participated. Only one student identified psychiatry as their chosen career. Medical students viewed psychiatry as the least attractive specialty for the degree to which patients are helped effectively and in terms of having a reliable scientific foundation. However, it rated well in regard to being intellectually challenging, a rapidly advancing field of medicine, and providing research opportunities and a good lifestyle. Psychiatry is less respected than most other specialties by students and they perceive this discipline to be poorly respected by other medical students and current medical practitioners. After viewing the DVD, there were improved student ratings of the benefits of a career in psychiatry, especially in relation to the specialty being enjoyable, offering effective treatment and having a scientific foundation. There was also enhanced understanding of the role of a psychiatrist in just over half of the participants and increased interest in psychiatry in about 30% of participants. The DVD was most effective in increasing awareness of the diversity of subspecialties available within psychiatry, good lifestyle factors, and the training involved. Conclusion: Among medical students, psychiatry is perceived as unattractive and fails to command the respect afforded other specialties. The viewing of a promotional DVD by medical students was found to be effective in improving their attitudes towards psychiatry and increasing their interest in pursuing a career in the specialty. However, the long-term impact of this modest improvement is unknown and the low survey response rate limits the extent to which the results can be generalized.

scholarly journals Early Clinical Experience: A Way for Preparing Students for Clinical Setting

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Sedigheh Ebrahimi ◽  
Javad Kojuri ◽  
Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Early Clinical Experience ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Early Clinical Exposure

Background: Various methods are used to improve the quality and usefulness of basic sciences taught to medical students before beginning of the clinical course and practice in higher grades. One method which is evaluated in the present study is early clinical experience. Methods and Materials: In this descriptive study, all medical freshmen were participated in a half day workshop for familiarity with hospital clinical environment. The attitude of the students towards early clinical exposure, profession, and medical education was investigated using a 30- item questionnaire before and after this workshop. Results: Totally, 207 students participated in the present study. Overall, scoring of the program was good to excellent on a five-point Likert scale (93.75%). Most students (89.6%, score =4.25) believed that the program’s content and management was appropriate for them. Conclusions: It was concluded that early clinical experience parallel with theoretical courses can provide a framework for the beneficial and successful integration of the teaching and learning of basic sciences for medical students.[GMJ. 2012;1(2):42-47]

Medical students' attitudes to psychiatry

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Wilkinson ◽  
S. Greeer ◽  
B. K. Toone
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
General Attitude ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students First ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Psychiatric Clerkship

SynopsisA questionnaire was developed to elicit medical students' attitudes to psychiatry. All 94 second year clinical students at a London teaching hospital completed the instrument before and after an 8-week psychiatric clerkship. Although two-thirds of the sample had mixed feelings about psychiatry initially, by the end of the clerkship the students' general attitude to psychiatry had changed significantly in a favourable direction. Analysis of 18 specific attitudes to psychiatry revealed that the students' first responses showed anticipatory bias and lack of uniformity. Later, however, only two specific attitudes had changed significantly: more students agreed that ‘problems presented by psychiatric patients are often particularly interesting and challenging’, and more of them disagreed with the statement that ‘psychiatric patients, generally speaking, are not easy to like’. The sexes differed on one attitude; more males than females agreed that “psychiatry is too inexact; it seems to lack a proper scientific basis”. Finally, the proportion of students who considered the possibility of specializing in psychiatry rose from 6 to 17% during the clerkship. The students' reasons for or against such a career are discussed.

scholarly journals Decrease in Stigma Towards Mental Illness in Portuguese Medical Students After a Psychiatry Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Vilar Queirós ◽  
Vítor Santos ◽  
Nuno Madeira
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University

Introduction: Stigma towards mental illness is considered a key obstacle to the provision of medical care to psychiatric patients. This is not only present in the general population but also among healthcare professionals. Therefore, medical students could be a target population for stigma prevention measures. The aim of this study is to assess the evolution of the attitudes of medical students from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra towards psychiatric patients, before and after attending Psychology and Psychiatric courses.Material and Methods: Students from the third and fourth years of the integrated Master’s degree in Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra were asked to complete four questionnaires. The surveys were distributed before and after the attendance of the courses.Results: There was a statistically significant decrease of the stigma scores (p = 0.025) between the two measurements (38.16 initially, 36.72 on the second moment). The baseline level of stigma was found to be negatively associated with empathy (rP = -0.477) and with the type of personality, with higher levels of openness to new experiences being associated with lower levels of initial stigma (rP = -0.357).Discussion: Overall, the students’ attitudes towards patients with mental illness were positive, with a decrease of the stigma value from the first to the second semester. This corroborates the hypothesis that education and contact with people with a mental condition could shape positive changes in attitudes and discrimination against those patients.Conclusion: Our results emphasise the importance of implementing programs inside medical schools in order to reduce stigma among future doctors.

scholarly journals Required Longitudinal Service-Learning and Its Effects on Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward the Underserved

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Rose Arebalos ◽  
Faun Lee Botor ◽  
Edward Simanton ◽  
Jennifer Young
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Preclinical Phase ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Medical Student Attitudes ◽  
The University

AbstractAlthough medical students enter medicine with altruistic motives and seek to serve indigent populations, studies show that medical students’ attitudes towards the undeserved tend to worsen significantly as they go through their medical education. This finding emphasizes the need for medical educators to implement activities such as service-learning that may help mitigate this negative trend.All students at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Medicine are required to participate in longitudinal service-learning throughout medical school, and a majority of students interact with the underserved at their service-learning sites. Using the previously validated Medical Student Attitudes Towards the Underserved (MSATU), independent sample T-tests showed that students who interact with underserved populations at their sites scored with significantly better attitudes towards the underserved at the end of their preclinical phase. Subjects included 58 medical students with 100% taking the MSATU. This result indicates that longitudinal service-learning, particularly when it includes interaction with the underserved, can be one method to combat the worsening of medical students’ attitudes as they complete their medical education.

scholarly journals A Theoretical Framework for the Development of Views of One’s Own Aging

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Sarah Marrs ◽  
Jennifer Inker ◽  
Madeline McIntyre ◽  
Leland Waters ◽  
Tracey Gendron
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract Senior mentoring programs have been established that provide medical students exposure to a community-dwelling older adult mentor. The goal of these programs is to expose students to healthy older adults, increase knowledge of geriatrics, and prepare them to care for an aging population. However, even while participating in a senior mentoring program, health professions students still demonstrate some discriminatory language towards older adults (e.g., Gendron, Inker, & Welleford, 2018). In fact, research suggests ageist practices occur, intentionally or not, among all health professions and within assisted living and long-term care facilities (e.g., Bowling, 1999; Dobbs et al., 2008; Kane & Kane, 2005). There is reason to believe that how we feel about other older adults is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves as aging individuals. As part of an evaluation of a Senior Mentoring program, we found that students’ attitudes towards older adults were not significantly improved (t (92) = .38, p = .70). To further explore this, we collected subsequent qualitative data. Specifically, we asked students to respond to the open-ended prompt before and after completing their senior mentoring program: How do you feel about your own aging? Our findings have revealed just how complex students’ views towards aging and elderhood are, pointing to a need to develop a theoretical framework for how these views are formed. Thus, the results of this qualitative grounded theory study illustrate the stages of development medical students’ progress through as they come to accept themselves as aging humans.

scholarly journals Medical Students' Views of Psychiatry

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 541-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.O. Mccormick ◽  
G. Voineskos
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Control Subject ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes

Medical students' views of the subjects: Psychiatry, Neurology and Surgery were studied before and after a nine week course which included Psychiatry and Neurology. Surgery was not being taught and was regarded as a control subject. Visual analogue measures of each subject as a career possibility, its importance and its interest were obtained in addition to a ranking for career choice of eight specialties. In addition, students' attitudes to psychiatrists, neurologists and surgeons (as control) were studied using semantic differential scores. The scores on the subjects showed changes favourable to Psychiatry after teaching which were not paralleled in Neurology or Surgery. The semantic differential scores clearly discriminated the three specialists; there were small changes after teaching but the broad differences in attitude to the specialists remained. Some evidence is presented that the more favourable changes towards Psychiatry were related to the quality and intensity of teaching.

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