title: The effect of clinical clerkship on students' attitudes toward psychiatry in Karachi, Pakistan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Attitudes of medical students toward a specialty is strongly related to their future choice of specialty. In developing countries like Pakistan, where there is a shortage of psychiatrists, there is a need to assess the effect of exposure to psychiatry on medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors conducted a survey of fourth-year medical students at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Psychiatry clerkship had an overall positive attitude toward psychiatric illness, patients, and psychiatrists, but no effect on students' choice of psychiatry as a career.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatry teaching needs to be made more relevant to the rest of the medical curricula. This may improve students' interest and their future choice of psychiatry as an area of specialization.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
authors: Ayesha
authors: A
authors: Sajid
authors: Murad M
authors: MM
authors: Khan
authors: Murtaza
authors: M
authors: Shakir
authors: Riffat
authors: R
authors: Moazam-Zaman
authors: Asad
authors: A
authors: Ali
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002321:Career Choice; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010154:Pakistan; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D000078329:Workforce