Psychiatry needs a new marketing campaign to improve its credibility and appeal as an interesting and respectable career option for medical students. Also, exposing those who may be going into primary care to “bread and butter” psychiatry would enhance patient care since a large percentage of psychotropic medications are actually prescribed by primary care doctors.
During the third year of medical school, students rotate through several required clinical clerkships, one of which is psychiatry. Since I started medical school 20 years ago, I have spoken with very few students and doctors who have had positive experiences with their psychiatry rotations.
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Medical training is filled with many memorable moments, some of which we probably wish had never happened.
In academic medical centers, med students are at the very bottom of the hierarchy. (In this case you’ll see that I was indeed literally at the “bottom.”) Therefore, if there is any “scut work” to be done, the buck is usually passed to them.
I’m sure you’ve heard the metaphor about how bodily waste flows downhill. Well, I’ve got a story to tell that will show you that it is indeed true part of the time, but it doesn’t always flow downhill or sometimes even “flow” at all for that matter. You’ll understand in a minute.
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