Datta Vivek
Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
Int Rev Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;21(3):261-6. doi: 10.1080/09540260902748001.
Films featuring psychiatrists, psychiatry and the mentally ill abound, for better or for worse. The use of cinema in postgraduate psychiatry training has been gaining increasing acceptability, but its potential for use in undergraduate psychiatry has received little attention in the literature. This paper reports on the rationale behind, and medical students' responses to a special study module for third year medical students at King's College London, which utilized movies to highlight the significance of the social, cultural and historical context in shaping representations of mental illness, psychiatry, and psychiatrists. Medical students were very receptive to the use of film as an educational tool and able to understand both the benefits and limitations. They found the module enjoyable, and subjectively rated their knowledge of psychiatric topics and the history of psychiatry as significantly improved. The results presented are course feedback from medical students (n = 8) who completed the module. Although our findings provide provisional support for the use of film as an educational tool in undergraduate psychiatry, more systematic research is needed to delineate the potential role of cinema in undergraduate psychiatric education.
无论好坏，以精神科医生、精神病学和精神疾病患者为主题的电影比比皆是。在研究生精神病学培训中使用电影已越来越被接受，但其在本科精神病学教学中的应用潜力在文献中却很少受到关注。本文报告了伦敦国王学院为三年级医学生开设的一个特别学习模块的背后原理以及医学生的反应，该模块利用电影来突出社会、文化和历史背景在塑造精神疾病、精神病学和精神科医生形象方面的重要性。医学生非常愿意接受将电影作为一种教育工具，并能够理解其优点和局限性。他们觉得这个模块很有趣，并主观地认为他们在精神科主题和精神病学史方面的知识有了显著提高。呈现的结果是完成该模块的8名医学生的课程反馈。尽管我们的研究结果为在本科精神病学教学中使用电影作为教育工具提供了初步支持，但仍需要更系统的研究来阐明电影在本科精神病学教育中的潜在作用。
