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Child Psychiatry Recruitment and Medical Student Education
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The establishment of an undergraduate core curriculum in child and adolescent psychiatry, supplemented by proven effective extracurricular activities, will promote greater exposure of the field to medical students and ultimately enhance recruitment.Abstract:
Recruitment into child and adolescent psychiatry has always been difficult. Medical students must experience an effective introduction to child and adolescent psychiatry and to its emotional and intellectual satisfactions if they are to consider career opportunities in this specialty. However, the contributions of child psychiatry to the medical student curriculum vary considerably across institutions. The establishment of an undergraduate core curriculum in child and adolescent psychiatry, supplemented by proven effective extracurricular activities, will promote greater exposure of the field to medical students and ultimately enhance recruitment.read more
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Child Psychiatry Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education
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Determinants of academic survival: survey of AACAP poster authors.
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Exposing medical students to child and adolescent psychiatry: a case-based seminar.
Jeremy S. Kaplan,MaryBeth Lake +1 more
TL;DR: Medical schools may consider providing students with increased exposure to child and adolescent psychiatry as this may encourage more future physicians to enter the field.
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Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
Russell Himmelstein,Sarah Guth,Michael Enenbach,Mary Margaret Gleason,Hanna E. Stevens,Anne L. Glowinski,Alex Kolevzon,Andrés Martin +7 more
TL;DR: Seventeen years after its inception, the KTGF medical student mentorship program network has had a positive impact on match rates into general psychiatry, even after adjustment for secular trends in match rates.
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Child Psychiatry and the Undergraduate Curriculum
TL;DR: While the four groups were in high agreement on the importance of most topics, nonpsychiatric physicians differed on: the diagnosis of learning disorders, understanding and management of common behavioral problems, adolescent drug abuse, and ability to do brief supportive psychotherapy.