Abstract
The clinical clerkship has been suggested as a significant factor in a medical student’s decision to enter psychiatry. Sixty-seven junior students were surveyed with regards to career interest in psychiatry, attitudes toward psychiatry, formal psychiatric knowledge and self-rated psychiatric skills preand post-rotation. The overall influence of the psychiatric clerkship on career interest appears limited. Interest in a psychiatric career correlated with interest in psychiatric knowledge, attitudes concerning curability of patients, comfort with psychiatric patients and the view of psychiatry as a scientific specialty. Students who reported a significant change in career interest could not be identified by any of the measured variables. The findings are discussed in relation to prior studies dealing with the influence of the clerkship on students’ career choice.
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