Abstract

With changing patterns of care, it is expected that more doctors will have contact with people with mental handicap. This study looks at medical students' evaluation of an aspect of the training they received to prepare them for such contact.

Highlights

  • One hundred and fourteen fourth year medical students were given a questionnaire to complete anonymously prior to undergoing formal teaching in the psychiatry of mental handicap

  • There was some confusion between the terms mental handicap and mental ill ness, with 21% being unclear as to the differences between them prior to teaching, and 15% afterwards. Another question related to causes of mental handi cap

  • Careful consider ation of how to overcome this should be given. It may reflect a situation where teaching about the psychiatric needs of people with a mental handicap occurs in a separate course unit to the other medical needs of this population, so that the terms mental handicap and psychiatry become fused for some students

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