A survey concerning the psychiatric practices of medical doctors, who graduated from Prince of Songkla University in 2017
Keywords:
concern, Doctor of Medicine, medical education, psychiatric practiceAbstract
Objectives: This study aims to survey the concerns regarding self-competency in psychiatric management among medical doctors who graduated from the Prince of Songkla University in 2017.
Methods: The survey is a descriptive, cross-sectional study, with the target population being medical doctors who graduate in 2017. The study tool was a self-administered questionnaire, divided into two parts: 1) Personal information and their medical career 2) Self-competency on their psychiatric practice that was the result or their psychiatric rotation according to the curriculum endorsed by the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University. The data was analysed using R programme to compute descriptive statistics on the respondent’s and responses in frequency, percentage, articulate mean and standard deviation.
Results: From the 118 medical doctors who agreed to participate, most were 24.5-year-old, females (64.4%), living in southern Thailand (89.8%). Half of them felt uneasy when having to deal with aggressive and violent patients (50.0%). Regarding child psychiatric patients, they pointed out that they worried about diagnosing and treating children with intellectual disability (33.9% and 38.1% respectively). Whereas, for the adult patients, they were most concerned about treating patients with substance-related disorders (28.0%). Overall, these doctors stated that they felt uncomfortable seeing psychiatric patients at their out-patients unit and in using psychiatric drugs.
Conclusion: Medical doctors who graduated from the Prince of Songkla University in 2017 demonstrated anxiety towards outpatient practice at psychiatric clinic, and in dispensing psychiatric drugs. They also stated they were most concerned with emergency psychiatry and child psychiatric practice. However, these doctors showed the most concerns for treating substance-related disorders.
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