title: Discovering stigma through recovery teaching.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  From the perspective of the tutor, course coordinators and a clinical supervisor, we describe and reflect on our observations of innovative service-user led tutorials on recovery that were delivered to final year medical students as part of their psychiatric module.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Much to our surprise, and in contrast to observations elsewhere during the module, students openly expressed blatant stigmatising attitudes in the tutorials on recovery, particularly after spending time with inpatient services. More specifically, they were pessimistic about the possibility of recovery and they struggled to accept the service user status of the recovery tutor. This prompted us to reflect on what and how we teach psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Research Fellow, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Sarah E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Huthwaite
authors.forename: Jacqueline A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Short
authors.forename: Pete M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D057545:Social Stigma; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: medical students; mental health; psychiatry; recovery; recovery tutors; stigma; teaching methods