Aims The Psychiatry Early Experience Programme (PEEP) is a long-standing scheme, collaboratively run by GKT School of Medical Education and SLaM Trust, which pairs medical students with core psychiatry trainees for clinical shadowing, mentoring educational talks the duration their degree. We aimed to understand motives first year signing up PEEP compare these feedback after one year. Methods Be...

a Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK b Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA d SU/UCT MRC Unit on Anxiety & Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa e Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University o...

Jacek Bomba: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chair of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University. Correspondence address: Jacek Bomba Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chair of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University, 21a Kopernika St. 31-501 Kraków, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Depression as seen from the psychotherapy...

Psychiatry as a medical discipline has been variously described. Even among medical community psychiatry was looked down upon as medical speciality. After World War II when psychiatry's importance was realized for total treatment, its image was supposed to have improved. In the light of these ups and downs a survey of medical community consisting of 5000 doctors was conducted results of which r...

BACKGROUND The question of identity of psychiatry as a medical profession as well as of the future of psychiatry has been the subject of much controversial discussion. METHOD An overview of available literature on crisis and challenges in contemporary psychiatry as well as on future of psychiatry. RESULTS In this paper we present our transdisciplinary multiperspective view on psychiatry bas...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the attitudes of medical students toward psychiatry and their intention to pursue psychiatry as a career; and to determine if they change after psychiatric attachment. It also examined the relationship between the students' characteristics and their attitudes in details. METHODS Pre and post-surveys using Likert-type scales were conducted versus 1...

The objectives of this study were to determine the characteristics of medical students and graduates interested in choosing psychiatry as a career and the obstacles in choosing this field of medicine. Two private and two public medical institutes were surveyed from June 2007 to August 2007. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to third, fourth and final year students and to medical...