TY - JOUR
T1 - Undergraduate psychiatric education
T2 - Current situation and way forward
AU - Sampogna, Gaia
AU - Elkholy, Hussien
AU - Baessler, Franziska
AU - Coskun, Bulent
AU - Pinto Da Costa, Mariana
AU - Ramalho, Rodrigo
AU - Riese, Florian
AU - Fiorillo, Andrea
N1 - Funding Information:
F.B. is supported by an Olympia Morata fellowship of the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg. F.R. received a speaker's honorarium by Merz and Vifor Pharma unrelated to this work. E.H. and M.P.d.C. are members of the BJPsych Bulletin editorial board and did not take part in the review or decision-making process of this paper
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
PY - 2022/5/13
Y1 - 2022/5/13
N2 - Undergraduate psychiatric education is essential for the training of medical students and for their recruitment into psychiatry. A significant shortage of graduates choosing a career in psychiatry has been recently documented, and this trend might have many causes. When medical students have positive experiences of teaching, elective placements and exposure to psychiatric patients, their attitudes towards psychiatry are significantly better. Therefore, there is a need to improve the quality of undergraduate training courses in psychiatry. Innovative teaching strategies are suggested, including the use of movies, virtual reality, simulated patients and multiprofessional training wards.
AB - Undergraduate psychiatric education is essential for the training of medical students and for their recruitment into psychiatry. A significant shortage of graduates choosing a career in psychiatry has been recently documented, and this trend might have many causes. When medical students have positive experiences of teaching, elective placements and exposure to psychiatric patients, their attitudes towards psychiatry are significantly better. Therefore, there is a need to improve the quality of undergraduate training courses in psychiatry. Innovative teaching strategies are suggested, including the use of movies, virtual reality, simulated patients and multiprofessional training wards.
KW - Education and training
KW - mental health
KW - psychiatric education
KW - psychiatry programmes
KW - recruitment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119519112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1192/bji.2021.48
DO - 10.1192/bji.2021.48
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85119519112
SN - 2056-4740
VL - 19
SP - 34
EP - 36
JO - BJPsych International
JF - BJPsych International
IS - 2
ER -