title: Factors affecting recruitment into child and adolescent psychiatry training.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors studied the factors affecting the recruitment into child and adolescent psychiatry training in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical students (n=154) and general and child and adolescent psychiatry residents (n=111) completed a questionnaire to evaluate career choice in child psychiatry (n=265).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with medical students, general and child and adolescent psychiatry residents were more likely socially related; extroverted; empathic; warm; tolerant of ambiguity; interested in quality of life, social systems, and a developmental perspective; and to espouse greater satisfaction working with psychiatric patients, but less interested in sports or outdoor activities. Seventy-eight percent of medical students considered psychiatry as a potential career, and 28% indicated a strong interest in psychiatry. Sixty-four percent of general psychiatry residents considered child psychiatry as a career. Reasons precluding child psychiatry were preference for working with adults (33%), the clinical child rotation (19%), years of training (13%), and indebtedness (3%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More effort is needed to address the barriers to selecting child psychiatry as a career among medical students and general psychiatry residents.
authors.affiliation: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (D29), Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Miami, FL 33101, USA. jshaw@med.miami.edu
authors.forename: Jon A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Shalini
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katyal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010560:Personnel Selection; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires