The effect of an educational program on the desire for treatment among impaired medical students.
Medical student impairment is recognized as a serious problem. Many medical schools attempt to treat or prevent impairment through the use of educational programs. However, the effectiveness of this method has not been tested. A major difficulty is that impaired students are often unwilling to seek help. I hypothesized that educational programs might help overcome this problem, and used a retrospective study to test for an association between attendance at a series of lectures about impairment and feeling the need for counseling among impaired medical students. A statistically significant association was found between having attended the lectures and feeling the need for counseling. This study supports the hypothesis that educational programs may be useful as a means of encouraging impaired medical students to seek treatment.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132.
D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010815:Physician Impairment; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D014903:West Virginia