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Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the medical students’ attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD: In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medi...

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Autores principales: Amini, Homayoun, Nejatisafa, Ali-Akbar, Shoar, Saeed, Kaviani, Hosein, Samimi-Ardestani, Mehdi, Shabani, Amir, Esmaeili, Sara, Moghaddam, Yasaman
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Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682250
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author Amini, Homayoun
Nejatisafa, Ali-Akbar
Shoar, Saeed
Kaviani, Hosein
Samimi-Ardestani, Mehdi
Shabani, Amir
Esmaeili, Sara
Moghaddam, Yasaman
author_facet Amini, Homayoun
Nejatisafa, Ali-Akbar
Shoar, Saeed
Kaviani, Hosein
Samimi-Ardestani, Mehdi
Shabani, Amir
Esmaeili, Sara
Moghaddam, Yasaman
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description OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the medical students’ attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD: In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of Iran located in Tehran (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, and Iran University of Medical Sciences) were asked to participate anonymously in the study on the first and the last 3-days of their psychiatry clerkship. From 346 invited 4th-5th year medical students, 225 (65%) completed anonymous self-report questionnaires before and after a 4-week psychiatry clerkship. RESULTS: Positive response to choose psychiatry as a career was seen in 13.3% and 18.3% before and after psychiatry rotation, respectively. However, the difference was not statistically significant; about one-quarter of the students were turned on to psychiatry and 25% were discouraged during the clerkship. Individual pair wise comparisons revealed significant improvements only in two out of 13 measured aspects of psychiatry. Seventeen out of 38 (47.7%) students who identified psychiatry as the career of choice or strong possibility reported that one of their family members or close friends’ mental illness had an impact on their choice. Those students who considered psychiatry as the strong possibility claimed that they are more interested in humanities (OR = 2.96; 95% CI: 1.17, 7.49), and playing a musical instrument (OR = 2.53; 95% CI: 1.15, 5.57). CONCLUSION: It may be concluded that exposure to psychiatry clerkship could influence medical students’ opinion about psychiatry positively, or negatively. Personal characteristics and individual interests of students may play an important role in choosing psychiatry as their future career.
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spelling pubmed-36552282013-05-16 Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship Amini, Homayoun Nejatisafa, Ali-Akbar Shoar, Saeed Kaviani, Hosein Samimi-Ardestani, Mehdi Shabani, Amir Esmaeili, Sara Moghaddam, Yasaman Iran J Psychiatry Original Article OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the medical students’ attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD: In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of Iran located in Tehran (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, and Iran University of Medical Sciences) were asked to participate anonymously in the study on the first and the last 3-days of their psychiatry clerkship. From 346 invited 4th-5th year medical students, 225 (65%) completed anonymous self-report questionnaires before and after a 4-week psychiatry clerkship. RESULTS: Positive response to choose psychiatry as a career was seen in 13.3% and 18.3% before and after psychiatry rotation, respectively. However, the difference was not statistically significant; about one-quarter of the students were turned on to psychiatry and 25% were discouraged during the clerkship. Individual pair wise comparisons revealed significant improvements only in two out of 13 measured aspects of psychiatry. Seventeen out of 38 (47.7%) students who identified psychiatry as the career of choice or strong possibility reported that one of their family members or close friends’ mental illness had an impact on their choice. Those students who considered psychiatry as the strong possibility claimed that they are more interested in humanities (OR = 2.96; 95% CI: 1.17, 7.49), and playing a musical instrument (OR = 2.53; 95% CI: 1.15, 5.57). CONCLUSION: It may be concluded that exposure to psychiatry clerkship could influence medical students’ opinion about psychiatry positively, or negatively. Personal characteristics and individual interests of students may play an important role in choosing psychiatry as their future career. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3655228/ /pubmed/23682250 Text en © 2013 Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Amini, Homayoun
Nejatisafa, Ali-Akbar
Shoar, Saeed
Kaviani, Hosein
Samimi-Ardestani, Mehdi
Shabani, Amir
Esmaeili, Sara
Moghaddam, Yasaman
Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship
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title_fullStr Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship
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title_short Iranian Medical Students’ Perception of Psychiatry: Before and After a Psychiatry Clerkship
title_sort iranian medical students’ perception of psychiatry: before and after a psychiatry clerkship
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682250
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