Sajid Ayesha, Khan Murad M, Shakir Murtaza, Moazam-Zaman Riffat, Ali Asad
Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
Acad Psychiatry. 2009 May-Jun;33(3):212-4. doi: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.3.212.
Attitudes of medical students toward a specialty is strongly related to their future choice of specialty. In developing countries like Pakistan, where there is a shortage of psychiatrists, there is a need to assess the effect of exposure to psychiatry on medical students.
The authors conducted a survey of fourth-year medical students at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.
Psychiatry clerkship had an overall positive attitude toward psychiatric illness, patients, and psychiatrists, but no effect on students' choice of psychiatry as a career.
Psychiatry teaching needs to be made more relevant to the rest of the medical curricula. This may improve students' interest and their future choice of psychiatry as an area of specialization.
医学生对某一专业的态度与其未来的专业选择密切相关。在像巴基斯坦这样精神科医生短缺的发展中国家,有必要评估接触精神病学对医学生的影响。
作者对巴基斯坦卡拉奇阿迦汗大学的四年级医学生进行了一项调查。
精神病学实习对精神疾病、患者和精神科医生总体持积极态度,但对学生选择精神病学作为职业没有影响。
精神病学教学需要与医学课程的其他部分更紧密相关。这可能会提高学生的兴趣以及他们未来选择精神病学作为专业领域的可能性。