Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Lindwurmstrasse 2 a, 80337 Munich, Germany.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2010 Jul 24;4:21. doi: 10.1186/1753-2000-4-21.
To conduct a survey about teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in German-speaking countries.
A questionnaire was sent to the 33 academic departments of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
All departments responded. For teaching knowledge, the methods most commonly reported were lectures and case presentations. The most important skills to be taught were thought to be how to assess psychopathology in children and how to assess families. For elective courses, the departments reported using a wide range of teaching methods, many with active involvement of the students. An average of 34 hours per semester is currently allocated by the departments for teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to medical students. Required courses are often taught in cooperation with adult psychiatry and pediatrics. Achievement of educational objectives is usually assessed with written exams or multiple-choice tests. Only a minority of the departments test the achievement of skills.
Two ways of improving education in child and adolescent psychiatry are the introduction of elective courses for students interested in the field and participation of child and adolescent psychiatrists in required courses and in longitudinal courses so as to reach all students. Cooperation within and across medical schools can enable departments of child and adolescent psychiatry, despite limited resources, to become more visible and this specialty to become more attractive to medical students. Compared to the findings in earlier surveys, this survey indicates a trend towards increased involvement of academic departments of child and adolescent psychiatry in training medical students.
对德语国家本科医学生儿童和青少年精神病学教学情况进行调查。
向德国、奥地利和瑞士德语区的 33 个儿童和青少年精神病学学术部门发送了一份问卷。
所有部门都做出了回应。在教学知识方面，报告中最常用的方法是讲座和病例介绍。被认为最重要的教学技能是如何评估儿童的精神病理学以及如何评估家庭。对于选修课程，各部门报告说使用了多种教学方法，许多方法都让学生积极参与其中。目前，各部门平均每学期为医学生安排 34 个小时的儿童和青少年精神病学教学。必修课程通常与成人精神病学和儿科学合作教授。教育目标的实现通常通过书面考试或多项选择题测试进行评估。只有少数部门测试技能的实现情况。
两种改进儿童和青少年精神病学教育的方法是为对该领域感兴趣的学生开设选修课程，以及让儿童和青少年精神病学家参与必修课程和纵向课程，以覆盖所有学生。医学学校内部和跨学校的合作可以使儿童和青少年精神病学系尽管资源有限，但更具知名度，使该专业对医学生更具吸引力。与早期调查的结果相比，本次调查表明学术部门在培训医学生方面的参与度呈上升趋势。
