BACKGROUND: Attitudes to psychiatry and mental illness among medical undergraduates are key factors in determining their choice of psychiatry as a career and willingness to deal with psychiatric disorders in general practice. METHODS: The responses of 108 medical students from the first and fourth year batches not exposed to psychiatry were compared with those of 139 final year students and interns who had completed varying components of psychiatric training using validated questionnaires that assessed their attitudes to psychiatry and mental illness, and their interest in psychiatry as a career choice. RESULTS: A greater proportion of students exposed to psychiatric training endorsed positive attitudes to mental illness than those not exposed (odds ratio=0.4; 95% confidence intervals: 0.21-0.71; p=0.002). The overall attitude towards psychiatry did not differ between students before or after psychiatric education. Women students were more likely to consider a career in psychiatry (odds ratio=2.9; 95% confidence intervals: 1.36-6.21; p = 0.004), but the proportion of students of either gender wishing to pursue psychiatry as a career option did not differ significantly with psychiatric training. CONCLUSION: Psychiatric education positively influences the attitudes of medical students towards mental illness and some aspects of psychiatry but does not increase the number of students wishing to pursue psychiatry as a career. Urgent and radical changes in psychiatric education for undergraduate medical students are required to meet current and future requirements of medical personnel trained to deal with psychiatric disorders.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

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Corneal sensitivity in aphakic and pseudophakic eyes.

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Aphakia, Postcataract↗

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Schematic documentation of cornea and anterior segment problems in clinical practice.

Corneal and external eye diseases are often present together. Pathologic processes in the cornea may be secondary to lesions involving the eyelids, tear meniscus, and conjunctiva, and all structures in the anterior segment may manifest clinical phenomena. We describe a method of recording diagrammatically corneal findings along with eyelids, eyelashes, tear meniscus, and anterior segment structures.

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BCG adjuvant immunotherapy in carcinoma of the prostate: an interim report.

Twenty-eight patients with a confirmed histological diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate received BCG immunotherapy in addition to conventional therapy. Patients receiving BCG exhibited significant changes in IgA, IgM, WBC's, acid phosphatase and in cutaneous hypersensitivity when compared to an age-related control group of prostatic cancer patients receiving only conventional therapy. Survival from the time of diagnosis was 8 months longer in patients receiving BCG. Side effects of BCG vaccination were minimal consisting of local inflammation and pruritus at the site of inoculation. There were no deaths of systemic reactions.

Adenocarcinoma↗