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This study reports the suggestions made to Departments of Psychiatry in medical schools about ways they can exert a more positive influence on medical students’ choice of psychiatry as a specialty. The suggestions were made by 222 United States medical school graduates of 1982 who went directly into a first year postgraduate psychiatric training program. The 332 suggestions were directed toward admission to medical school, psychiatric curriculum, teaching approaches, psychiatric faculty, relations with non-psychiatric departments, and psychiatry as a specialty. Of the 332 suggestions, 177 (53%) dealt with psychiatric education.
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Supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, Center for Health Services Manpower Research and Demonstration, Grant MH 16663.
Address reprint requests to George H. Zimny, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, St. Louis University School of Medicine, 1221 S. Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63104.
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Zimny, G.H., Sata, L.S. & Singerman, B. Psychiatric Recruitment: Suggestions to Departments of Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 12, 289–298 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399990
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