Attitudes toward issues in psychiatry among third-year residents: a brief survey.
The authors surveyed 378 third-year psychiatric residents on their attitudes toward psychiatric training, forms of psychotherapy, and the medical model; their treatment preferences for 4 given psychiatric disorders; and their career plans. Correlation coefficients and analysis of variance indicated clustering of attitudes along a dynamic-biological continuum, with medical education and experience with drug therapy rated highest of the training aspects and personal analysis or psychotherapy, training in psychoanalysis, and research rated lowest.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States