background : studies have shown a gradual decline in empathy of medical trainees with increasing years of education. methods to augment empathy show some promise, but the most effective methods are both expensive and time consuming.to assess effectiveness of communication skills training program as a distant learning method in improving empathy.   method s: fourteen first year residents of psyc...

I am grateful to you all, the Chairman and members of awards committee of Indian Psychiatric Society for confering upon me the prestigious "Tilak Venkoba Rao Oration" Award for 1987. As you all know, this oration is instituted in memory of late Tilak Venkoba Rao, to encourage young psychiatrist to undertake research work in field of biological psychiatry. My inspiration for research in psychiat...

BACKGROUND The use of simulated patients to teach in psychiatry has not been reported from low-income countries. This is the first study using simulation teaching in psychiatry in Africa. The aim of this study was to introduce a novel method of psychiatric teaching to medical students at the University of Zimbabwe and assess its feasibility and preliminary effectiveness. We selected depression ...

In this paper we describe the objectives of teaching medical ethics to undergraduates and the teaching methods used. We describe a workshop used in the University of Liverpool Department of Psychiatry, designed to enhance ethical sensitivity in psychiatry. The workshop reviews significant historical and current errors in the ethical practice of psychiatry and doctors' defence mechanisms against...

CONTEXT Given the well-documented shortage of physicians in primary care and several other specialties, quantitative understanding of residency application and matching data among osteopathic and allopathic medical students has implications for predicting trends in the physician workforce. OBJECTIVES To estimate medical student interest in neurology and psychiatry based on numbers of applican...

BACKGROUND Team learning, an innovative educational method combining interactive small group learning with expert-based content delivery, was introduced into our psychiatry clerkship in 2002. The main goal was to increase classroom engagement and improve educational outcomes. DESCRIPTION Eight of 16 lectures were replaced with team learning activities, including prerequisite readings, readine...

Diagnoses of patients referring to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic Objective: The aim of the present study is to identify the diagnoses of patients who referred to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic. Method: Medical records of 538 patients referred to the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry outpatient clinic at Gulhane Military Medical School, between January...

The cornucopia of articles in this issue of Academic Psychiatry illustrates the richness and creativity of medical student education in psychiatry. This collection, which arose through spontaneous submissions to our journal from dedicated teachers and scholars throughout the world, also demonstrates that educational innovation in psychiatry is flourishing in several countries. Because psychiatr...