Medical students' learning as primary therapists or as participant/observers in a psychiatric clerkship. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors assessed two different inpatient models of clinical clerkships in psychiatry on the basis of both an examination assessing amount of learning and a survey of student attitudes. One clerkship model placed the third-year medical student in the role of primary therapist; the other model assigned each student to join a psychiatrist as a participant/observer. No overall difference in objective assessment of learning was found between the two groups of students, and student attitudes generally favored the participant/observer model. These findings suggest that the widespread bias favoring the primary therapist model may not be justified.

publication date

  • December 1, 1983

Research

keywords

  • Clinical Clerkship
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • Learning
  • Psychiatry
  • Students, Medical

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0021049235

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1176/ajp.140.12.1615

PubMed ID

  • 6650695

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 140

issue

  • 12