Who Picks Psychiatry? Perceptions, Preferences and Personality of Medical Students

Malhi, Gin S; Coulston, Carissa; Parker, Gordon; Cashman, Emma; Walter, Garry; Lampe, Lisa; Vollmer‐Conna, Ute

doi:10.3109/00048674.2011.604301

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“…In part 2: The majority of students and intern had a 1366 neutral attitude toward psychiatric knowledge, 62.38%, and 83.28% showed a neutral to negative attitude toward the scientific knowledge of psychiatry, and that most facts in psychiatry are just vague speculations, respectively. These results show that medical students and interns have anegative perception of psychiatry as an unscientific discipline and somehow different from other medical disciplines in term of training and outcome [24], similar results were reported in an Australian study [25]. The emphasis on the biological aspects of psychiatric disorders has been proposed to play a positive role to enhance the attitude toward psychiatry [9,32], as well as the integration of psychiatry into the general hospital settings [33].…”

Section: Positive Attitudesupporting

confidence: 70%

“…However, the majority (47.16%) thought that psychiatric treatment had become more efficient in recent years. Two other studies by Melhiet al have reported similar results [25,26]. In part 2: The majority of students and intern had a 1366 neutral attitude toward psychiatric knowledge, 62.38%, and 83.28% showed a neutral to negative attitude toward the scientific knowledge of psychiatry, and that most facts in psychiatry are just vague speculations, respectively.…”

Section: Positive Attitudesupporting

confidence: 67%

“…The scale consisted of 30 statements, 15 of them were negatively stated with the other 15 were positively stated. The positively stated items (i.e., questions 4,5,9,12,14,15,18,20,23,25,[27][28][29] were reversed by subtracting the score from 6. The instrument showed good internal consistency for this study (Cronbach's alpha = 0.810).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Medical Students Attitude Toward Psychiatry in Umm Al-Qura University: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Sarhan¹,

Alkhiri²,

Maqadmi³

et al. 2017

IJAR

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Background: Several studies worldwide reported negative attitude toward psychiatry from medical students and interns. Despite the increasing demand for psychiatry and mental health services, psychiatrists' numbers are still low, and the field of psychiatry is still attracting a lower number of medical students. Objective: This study aims to measure the attitude of medical students and interns toward psychiatry in Umm Al-Qura University medical college, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Method: A Cross-sectional study. A web-based Attitude Toward Psychiatry (ATP-30) questionnaire was distributed among randomly chosen interns and 6th-year medical students, who had completed their psychiatry course and rotation, and to fourth and 5th-year medical students, who did not have any previous exposure to psychiatry. Results: A total of 335 participants completed the survey, of which 168 were males, and 167 were females. Among them, only 53 are considering psychiatry as a career, while 193 did not, and 89 are not sure. The participants showed an overall positive attitude with the mean scoring of 98.09 ±12.22 on the ATP-30 questionnaire, with male participants showing more positive attitude (99.65±11.48) than female participants (96.44±12.79). The most neutral responses were about how facts in psychiatry are just vague speculations, how their undergraduate training in psychiatry was valuable, and that psychiatry cannot be taughteffectively because it is so amorphous. Negative attitude was observed in the areas concerning the choice of psychiatry as a future career and viewing psychiatric hospitals as little more than prisons. Positive attitude toward areas on the validity of psychotherapy, viewing psychiatry as a respected branch of medicine, attention toward mental illness, and the humanity of the mentally ill. Significant differences based on gender were observed in the areas measuring attitude toward psychiatric patients, psychiatric illness, psychiatry, and psychiatrists. The prior exposure to psychiatry teaching and practice did not seem to affect the attitude. Conclusions: Interns and students overall showed neutral to positive ATP. Proper evaluation and subsequent modification to the current

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Section: Positive Attitudesupporting

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Section: Positive Attitudesupporting

confidence: 67%

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Medical Students Attitude Toward Psychiatry in Umm Al-Qura University: A Cross-Sectional Study.

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Maqadmi³

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“…career choice in psychiatry, or were seriously considering it, was similar to that reported by Malhi et al (2011), but slightly higher than that emerging from Goldacre et al (2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

International Study of Student Career Choice in Psychiatry (ISoSCCiP): Results from Modena, Italy

Ferrari¹,

Reggianini²,

Mattei³

et al. 2013

International Review of Psychiatry

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Italy was one of the 16 countries to take part in the International Study of Student Career Choice in Psychiatry (ISoSCCiP). This paper reports and comments on the IsoSCCiP data on Italian medical students. Italian final year medical students from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia were asked to fill in an on-line questionnaire during the first semester of two consecutive academic years (2009-2010, 2010-2011). Step-wise logistic regressions were performed. Of the 231 students invited, 106 returned completed questionnaires (response rate = 46.7%). Women constituted 66%, and mean age was 25.14 (SD = 1.15). Psychiatry was the second most common choice of possible career by students (5.7%, n = 6). Choosing psychiatry was predicted by having volunteered for further clinical/research activities in psychiatry (p = 0.01), believing that 'the problems presented by psychiatric patients are often particularly interesting and challenging' (p < 0.01), and by accounts of personal/family experience with physical illness (p < 0.01). Both personal factors and factors related to training may be involved in the choice of psychiatry among Italian medical students. Cultural and organizational specificities of Italian mental healthcare may be involved, particularly the strong tradition of social psychiatry.

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“… career choices (Ackerman & Beier, 2003;Eley, Eley, Bertello, & Rogers-Clark, 2012;Holland, 1997;Jones et al, 2013;Malhi et al, 2011),  career satisfaction (Richardson, Lounsbury, Bhaskar, Gibson, & Drost, 2009)  life satisfaction Josefsson et al, 2011;Magee, Miller, & Heaven, 2013).…”

Section: Temperament and Character Inventory (Tci)mentioning

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Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

Campbell¹

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Background: Allied health (AH) workforce shortages in remote and rural Australia contribute to poorer health outcomes for residents in those areas. This gap in health workforce has long been recognised as problematic and persists despite strategies for improving recruitment and retention of AH professionals. This thesis reports on a new approach to addressing the recruitment to, and retention in, remote areas of AH professionals by investigating the personal traits and motivation characteristics of AH professionals with and without remote area work experience. Recent research has shown that the nursing and medical professions can be differentiated by personality traits, but little is known about the personality traits of AH professionals. Therefore, this research aimed to address that knowledge gap.The aim of the study was to identify the personality traits and motivation characteristics that might assist an individual to 'thrive' rather than 'survive' in the remote work environment. It Health achieved a sample size of 562 AH professionals, with full demographic data and a completed TCI. Dependent variables were the TCI dimensions, while independent variables were remote experience, gender, age, profession and grouping of the professions as either person-or technique-oriented. Analysis was descriptive of the whole sample and comparative between groups using independent samples t-test, ANOVA and subsequent two-way ANOVA with 95% confidence level.Strand 2 used Personal Construct Psychology's key technique, the repertory grid interview, to understand how AH professionals construed working in remote areas, in terms of the personal traits and motivation that contribute to success. Participants (n=34) were a purposively selected subset of Strand 1. The repertory grid interviews produced both iii qualitative and quantitative data. These were analysed qualitatively to identify the personal and motivation characteristics, and quantitatively using singular value decomposition and Euclidean distance to compare differences construed by participants between remote and other AH work situations. Results:The following key findings were determined from personality trait results, together with the repertory grid results: The AH professionals appear to have mature personality characteristics, i.e. high or very high levels of Reward Dependence, Persistence, Self-directedness and Cooperativeness. The AH professionals with remote experience had higher Novelty Seeking and average Harm Avoidance levels compared with AH professionals without remote experience. Younger AH professionals tended towards higher Harm Avoidance levels.

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Who Picks Psychiatry? Perceptions, Preferences and Personality of Medical Students

Cited by 40 publications

References 33 publications

Medical Students Attitude Toward Psychiatry in Umm Al-Qura University: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Medical Students Attitude Toward Psychiatry in Umm Al-Qura University: A Cross-Sectional Study.

International Study of Student Career Choice in Psychiatry (ISoSCCiP): Results from Modena, Italy

Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

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