Main description:

Over the last decade there has been a decline in interest shown by UK medical school graduates in choosing to specialise in psychiatry as a career, as shown by the falling proportion of candidates from the UK taking the MRCPsych examinations. The impression currently given by undergraduates, foundation and specialist trainees suggests that the medical student experience of Psychiatry is currently a dispiriting one. A survey of psychiatrists in 2003 highlighted the link between the quality of undergraduate teaching and the recruitment of young doctors to pursue a career in psychiatry. This book contains advice on how to teach psychiatry to undergraduate medical students using a range of different methods in different settings. It addresses some of the theory and practical aspects of teaching psychiatry to medical students. Different chapters focus on: giving a lecture; small group teaching; clinical teaching; problem based learning; and the use of simulated patients and role play. There is also advice on involving trainees and service users in teaching and in teaching psychiatry internationally. The later chapters focus more on issues relating to recruitment.
The book's content represents an important step towards the delivery of high quality and inspirational undergraduate teaching.

Contents:

Chapter 1: How Students Learn. Chapter 2: Recent Developments in Undergraduate Education. Chapter 3: Undergraduate Psychiatry Teaching - the Core Curriculum. Chapter 4: The Organisation of Undergraduate Teaching. Chapter 5: Assessment of Undergraduates in Psychiatry. Chapter 6: Using Computers to Teach Undergraduate Psychiatry. Chapter 7: How to Give a Lecture. Chapter 8: How to do Small Group Teaching. Chapter 9: Problem Based Learning. Chapter 10: Teaching Trainee Psychiatrists How To Teach Medical Students: the Southampton Model. Chapter 11: Involving Trainees in Teaching. Chapter 12: Service User Involvement in Psychiatric Education. Chapter 13: Time-efficient Clinical Teaching. Chapter 14: Intercalated Degrees in Psychological Medicine. Chapter 15: Undergraduate Experiences of Psychiatry, a Medical Student View. Chapter 16: Integration: Teaching Psychiatry with Other Specialties. Chapter 17: Teaching the Teachers in a Cross-cultural Setting:- the Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project. Chapter 18: International Undergraduate Teaching. Chapter 19: Teaching with Simulated Patients and Role Play. Chapter 20: Undergraduate Medical Education and Recruitment to Psychiatry. Chapter 21: Choosing Psychiatry: Factors Influencing Career Choice among Foundation Doctors in Scotland. Chapter 22: Funding of Teaching. Chapter 23: Dealing with Students in Difficulty. Chapter 24: Teaching Medical Students to Promote Mental Health in Schools. Chapter 25: Women in Psychiatry.