Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Child Psychiatry Recruitment and Medical Student Education

  • Published:
Academic Psychiatry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Recruitment into child and adolescent psychiatry has always been difficult. Medical students must experience an effective introduction to child and adolescent psychiatry and to its emotional and intellectual satisfactions if they are to consider career opportunities in this specialty. However, the contributions of child psychiatry to the medical student curriculum vary considerably across institutions. The establishment of an undergraduate core curriculum in child and adolescent psychiatry, supplemented by proven effective extracurricular activities, will promote greater exposure of the field to medical students and ultimately enhance recruitment.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Brunstetter R: Recruitment issues in child psychiatry. Journal of Psychiatric Education 1984; 8:3–15

    Google Scholar 

  2. Career Training in Child Psychiatry: Report of the Conference on Training in Child Psychiatry (sponsored by the American Academy of Child Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association), Washington, DC, January 10–15, 1963. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1964

  3. Child Psychiatry: A Plan for the Coming Decades. Washington, DC, American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1983

    Google Scholar 

  4. Committee on Medical Student Education: A Guideline for a Medical Student Curriculum in Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1982

    Google Scholar 

  5. Kay J: Child psychiatry and the undergraduate curriculum. Journal of Psychiatric Education 1983; 7:126–137

    Google Scholar 

  6. Task Force on Pediatric Education: The Future of Pediatric Education. Chicago, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1978

    Google Scholar 

  7. Kay J: Medical student education, in the Basic Handbook of Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Edited by Cohen R, Dulcan M. Springfield, Ill, Thomas, 1987, pp 451–471

  8. Kay J: The psychiatry club: enhancing the career choice of psychiatry. J Med Educ 1984; 59:62–63

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati

    Jerald Kay M.D. (professor of child psychiatry and vice chairman for training and education in the department of psychiatry)

Authors
  1. Jerald Kay M.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Address reprint requests to him at 231 Bethesda Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0559. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the National Recruitment Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, held January 18–19, 1989, in San Diego

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kay, J. Child Psychiatry Recruitment and Medical Student Education. Acad Psychiatry 13, 208–212 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03340017

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03340017

Keywords

Search

Navigation