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The ability of medical students to delineate psychopathology with a standardized rating scale did not correlate significantly with other measures of psychiatric ability employed by a University Department of Psychiatry. Although these findings indicate that it may be premature to use such instruments in the formal assessment of students of psychiatry, its use proved valuable in stimulating discussion on the need for standardization in the delineation of psychopathology, and the difficulties involved therein.
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This work was carried out in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
We acknowledge the assistance of Professor I. Pilowsky and Drs. R. Chynoweth and G. Barrow in providing the ratings for the video taped interview. We also thank Dr. D. Hardy, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Adelaide, who allowed access to the examination results of the medical students.
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Goldney, R., Carr, V. & Katsikitis, M. Assessment of the Delineation of Psychopathology by Medical Students. Acad Psychiatry 7, 202–207 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399887
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