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[What do medical students in the 6th clinical semester know about psychiatric emergencies?]
1Psychiatrische Klinik der LMU, München. bottlend@psy.med.uni-muenchen.de
Objective:
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the knowledge of medical students in psychiatric emergencies.
Methods:
Medical students were questioned concerning their knowledge about psychiatric emergencies, shortly before finishing their theoretical part of the medical training program.
Results:
Findings indicated that medical students have significant deficits in psychiatric knowledge. Nevertheless, most students reported to be interested in psychiatry and to acknowledge the importance of psychiatric knowledge for general practioners.
Conclusions:
The reasons for the reported deficits cannot be sufficiently explained by a lack of interest in psychiatry or a negation of the importance of knowledge in psychiatry for general practioners and may hint to conceptual problems in the organisation of the medical training programs.
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