Abstract
A good doctor-patient relationship is central to the task of gathering information and providing treatment, especially in psychiatry. In a teaching hospital this relationship may be complicated by the presence of one or more medical students, watching in an uninvolved fashion, and possibly changing from visit to visit. If the students are seated to one side or even behind him, the patient may feel increasingly uncomfortable about exposing personal material in the absence of any visual feedback. A passive audience may be permissible in a general medical setting where information is less personal and amateur status is masked behind white uniforms. In psychiatry, however, the youthfulness and comparative immaturity of students may be heightened by casual dress and less formal clinics.
Highlights
The major branches of psychiatry are represented
Trainees are attached to personal tutors through out their stay, receive induction tutorials during their first six weeks from senior registrars and are inter viewed by the Psychiatric Tutor who gives them a package containing useful information, reading lists, history taking schedules, etc, and a training record book containing details of the rotational training scheme, a curriculum vitae, and sections for recording experience gained or missed and examination results
This study suggests that overall only 7 per cent of patients would object to students
Summary
The major branches of psychiatry are represented. Six months each are given to psychogeriatrics and child-adolescent psychiatry, the latter being com bined with experience in mental handicap of one day per week. The specialties are neurology (one month attachment to DGH Department), psychology (one month attachment to Area Department based at Exe Vale), alcoholism (short attachment to Area Unit) and forensic psychiatry and administration, in which trainees gain experience by arrangement with their consultant, this being noted in their record books. Each trainee on appointment receives a pro gramme number and a personal, up to 42-month, timetable. Trainees are attached to personal tutors through out their stay, receive induction tutorials during their first six weeks from senior registrars and are inter viewed by the Psychiatric Tutor who gives them a package containing useful information, reading lists, history taking schedules, etc, and a training record book containing details of the rotational training scheme, a curriculum vitae, and sections for recording experience gained or missed and examination results. The books can be presented for inspection when applying for subsequent posts
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