Attitudes towards psychiatry as a prospective career among medical interns
Journal Title: Telangana Journal of Psychiatry - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction In India there is a great shortage of psychiatrists unable to respond to the demands of providing good quality mental health care More women worldwide are taking up psychiatry as a career Medical interns are the future doctors on the threshold of making a choice regarding their postgraduation which will influence the future quality of mental health care Materials and Methods The attitudes to psychiatry of 148 medical interns 93 male and 55 female were studied using the 29 item Balons questionnaireResults The overall mean attitudes scores to psychiatry was 8840 for males and 8525 for females P0001 The mean attitude scores in Area 6 Specific medical college factors was 19 for males and 1756 for female pConclusions There were overall positive attitudes scores to psychiatry in both male and female medical interns with higher scores in males as compared to femalesThere were positive attitude scores in both male and female interns to the teaching of psychiatry at the medical college Interns have negative attitude to psychiatric patients which suggest stigmatization Interns need to be encouraged to take up psychiatry as a life long career Keywords Attitudes Medical interns Career Psychiatry
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Ivan Netto, Manjeet Santre, Smita Panse
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