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Psychiatrists as Teachers in Medical School

Analysis of Teaching Goals in a Department of Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. J. Walton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
J. Drewery
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries

Extract

This investigation was done to determine whether marked differences are present among lecturers in a single teaching department. Individual lecturers might vary in their teaching aims and attitudes, but yet resemble some of their colleagues sufficiently for sub-groups to form within the department. Such a university department might set out to provide students with a range of conceptual viewpoints, and for this purpose approve discrepant orientations among the teachers. On the other hand, a department may adopt the contrary view that only a confusing impression can result if—in the course of relatively brief undergraduate psychiatric instruction—contradictory statements are expressed by different teachers. Some departments, as yet unaware of the need to specify objectives, may never give consideration to the amount of consensus prevailing among the lecturers as a body.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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