Personality Correlates of a Career Interest in Psychiatry

Walton, H. J.

doi:10.1192/bjp.115.519.211

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“…[3][4][5] The potential impact of psychiatry clerkships during undergraduate medical training on student attitudes and career choice has been extensively studied, mostly at academic institutions in developed countries. Available studies in Africa have assessed only the general attitude of medical students to psychiatry.…”

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The impact of a psychiatry clinical rotation on the attitude of Nigerian medical students to psychiatry

Adebowale¹,

Adelufosi²,

Ogunwale³

et al. 2012

Afr. J. Psych

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Objective: Undergraduate medical students have ingrained and often negative attitudes towards psychiatry as a field and as a career. This in turn has affected recruitment of graduate medical students into the specialty. Little is known about the impact of psychiatry rotations during undergraduate medical training on students' attitudes about psychiatry and eventual specialty choice in developing countries. This study examined the impact of a psychiatry clinical rotation on medical students' attitudes to psychiatry and possible career choice. Method: Eighty-one and one hundred and six fifth year medical students completed the ATP-30, socio-demographic and career choice questionnaires at the beginning and the end of a four week clinical rotation respectively. Results: The overall attitude of the students to psychiatry was favourable at the beginning of the rotation with significant improvement following the rotation (p=0.003). Significant improvement in attitude was observed among female and younger students. Students who indicated preference for specialties other than psychiatry showed a greater improvement in their attitude to psychiatry following the rotation (p= 0.011). The rotation however did not enhance students' preference for psychiatry as a future career. Conclusion: The four-week clinical rotation in psychiatry resulted in increased mean attitudinal score, but not in enhanced preference for psychiatry as a career.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of a psychiatry clinical rotation on the attitude of Nigerian medical students to psychiatry

Adebowale¹,

Adelufosi²,

Ogunwale³

et al. 2012

Afr. J. Psych

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“…The existing literature is divided in its findings about whether the ability to deal with uncertainty (or related concepts such as tolerate ambiguity) is related to medical specialty choice (Fox 1957;Budner 1962;Gerrity, DeVellis and Earp 1990;Matteson and Smith 1977;Linn andZeppa 1980,1982;Walton 1969;DeForge andSobal 1989,1991). The lack of any relationship of uncertainty items and specialty preference in this data suggests that there is no specialty sorting of student physicians by uncer tainty at entry to medical school.…”

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“…A related personality attribute, Intolerance of Ambiguity, was found to be associated with choosing more structured specialties in two studies examining students already in the medical socialization process (Budner 1962;Mattheson and Smith 1977). Other studies found intolerance of ambiguity was associated with specialty preferences after students had received specialized instruction or training from a surgical clerkship (Linn and Zeppa 1980) or in psychiatry (Walton 1969). However, two recent studies found no relationship of initial intolerance of ambiguity in entering medical students with specialty preference or choice (DeForge andSobal 1989, 1991).…”

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Medical Uncertainty in Students Entering Medical School

Sobal

DeForge

1991

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“…more open and agreeable and less conscientious, as well as experiencing more severe depression and more neurosis, the latter being a difference found by others over some decades (Walton, 1969). The lower levels of conscientiousness alongside higher neuroticism might have made medicine a more difficult profession to tackle for these psychiatrists even in student days.…”

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confidence: 99%