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There has been considerable discussion in this and other journals about the negative perception of psychiatry among medical students.[1][1],[2][2] I am approximately 1 month into my foundation year 1 placement in liaison psychiatry, and would like to share my experiences. Undergraduate psychiatry

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  • There has been considerable discussion in this and other journals about the negative perception of psychiatry among medical students.[1,2] I am approximately 1 month into my foundation year 1 placement in liaison psychiatry, and would like to share my experiences

  • Undergraduate psychiatry placements in the UK usually occur within the last 2 years of medical school. For such a unique medical specialty this can often seem like something of an afterthought. At such a late stage students can be very exam focused; undergraduate psychiatric exams, with short, time-restricted stations and simulated patients are drastically different to the realities of clinical psychiatry

  • Without the looming threat of exams, and with a greater involvement in the team, my junior doctor colleagues and I have found psychiatry to be a joy. It is a somewhat paperwork-heavy specialty, psychiatry does not suffer from overuse of protocols and predefined clinical pathways in the same way that core medical specialties tend to, leaving scope for even the juniors to be involved in regular, and real, clinical decision-making

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There has been considerable discussion in this and other journals about the negative perception of psychiatry among medical students.[1,2] I am approximately 1 month into my foundation year 1 placement in liaison psychiatry, and would like to share my experiences. We are writing to draw attention to a new development in a range of adult mental health services around the country (we have had experience of this in several separate geographical areas throughout the UK) - the ‘opt-in letter’.

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