There is growing evidence of need to improve and strengthen educational programs with antidiscrimination and proper information about possibilities for recovery of mental illness. The overview of research of effective antistigma interventions prove that direct contact and personal testimonies of patients improve the discrimination attitudes among professional groups not trained in mental health and among secondary schools' students. Taking a psychiatric history is a key educational objective in psychiatric clerkship in Slovenia and students are faced with testimonies of psychiatric patients. They are however provided only with the contact with severely ill (hospitalized) patients and therefore with little chance to witness their recovery and improved functioning.

The results of the presented research proved that students' fear from patients with severe mental illness is reduced, but not their stereotypes in a six months clerkship at the psychiatric hospital.

More effective educational interventions are needed to improve students' attitudes. There are several suggestions coming from different parts of the world to change prejudice and they share importance of direct contact with recovered patients. This is not achievable in psychiatric hospitals where growing numbers of severely ill patients are gathered, but only in community settings, where these patients work and live in their natural environments. Closer involvement of psychiatrists with other physicians in the clinical and educational programs with a shift of part of psychiatric teaching from psychiatric institutions to family medicine is another strategy recommended, which could also reduce the stigma attached to psychiatric profession.