Teaching of psychiatry: customising the curriculum of medical students for ASEAN
- Author:
Pichet Udomratn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
psychiatry, education, curriculum
- From:ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry
2008;9(2):114-117
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
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Abstract:
The need for effective education in psychiatry for all doctors is as great in developing countries as in developed ones, especially in ASEAN, where many psychiatric cases are managed
by non psychiatric doctors. The curriculum must be designed to ensure that physicians have
the ability to diagnose and treat the most common psychiatric disorders but it may be customised to the data or needs of each specific country in ASEAN. Three topics that have been proposed for inclusion in the curriculum are disaster psychiatry/mental health, ethnopsychopharmacology, and critical appraisal of publications. Integrating psychiatry within other disciplines and using problem based learning (PBL) in undergraduate students may be an alternative approach in the teaching of psychiatry.
