What attracts medical students towards psychiatry? A review of factors before and during medical school
- 1 August 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in International Review of Psychiatry
- Vol. 25 (4), 371-377
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09540261.2013.823855
Abstract
Potential psychiatrists decide on their careers before, during or after medical school. This article summarises the literature focusing on the first two groups. Pre-medical school factors associated with choosing psychiatry include gender, academic aptitude, ethnicity and migration, exposure to mental illness, economic considerations and medical school route and selection. Factors involved in influencing career choice at medical school level include attitudes towards psychiatry, teaching methods, quality and length of clinical exposure, electives and enrichment activities, and personality factors. Considering these factors may improve recruitment to psychiatry and address shortages in the speciality.Keywords
This publication has 62 references indexed in Scilit:
- Improving Recruitment and Funding in Psychiatry by Teaching College UndergraduatesAcademic Psychiatry, 2005
- The Attitudes of Israeli Medical Students Toward Residency in PsychiatryAcademic Psychiatry, 2005
- US Graduate Medical Education, 2003-2004JAMA, 2004
- Assessing Personal Qualities in Medical School AdmissionsAcademic Medicine, 2003
- Attitude of Arabian Gulf University Medical Students towards PsychiatryPublished by Taylor & Francis Ltd ,2002
- Recruitment into psychiatryThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 2002
- The attitudes of 'tomorrow's doctors' towards mental illness and psychiatry: changes during the final undergraduate year.Medical Education, 2001
- Medical Students’ Attitudes and Views of PsychiatryAcademic Psychiatry, 1999
- Who's for Psychiatry?The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
- The ATP 30-a scale for measuring medical students' attitudes to psychiatryMedical Education, 1982