"Cui bono?" (Quoted by Cicero: "To whose benefit, advantage?") Recruitment is recognized as a key measure of the standing of the profession and, in medicine, the value of a specialty field. It is not a perfect measure—the absolute number of individuals who enter highly competitive fields such as neurosurgery, dermatology, and orthopedic surgery is small—and yet recruitment persists as an indication of "worth" in medical training. In psychiatry, a medical school program that consistently "delivers" more than a handful of students into psychiatric residencies at graduation is noticed and respected. Indeed, recruitment into psychiatry is seen as reflecting favorably on the field of psychiatry, the training environment of a particular department of psychiatry, and, accordingly, on the work of a medical student education director. Some might argue, in fact, that psychiatry is a discipline especially concerned with recruitment. The reasons for this relate to the public health burden of mental illness and the personal suffering linked with mental illness across all ages, societies, and cultures as well as the insufficient representation of psychiatrists in the physician workforce throughout the world (1). Concerns about recruitment in our field also pertain to the relatively low number of American medical graduates
Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and Recruitment Into Psychiatry: An Ethical Issue?
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"Cui bono?" (Quoted by Cicero: "To whose benefit, advantage?") Recruitment is recognized as a key measure of the standing of the profession and, in medicine, the value of a specialty field. It is not a perfect measure—the absolute number of individuals who enter highly competitive fields such as neurosurgery, dermatology, and orthopedic surgery is small—and yet recruitment persists as an indication of "worth" in medical training. In psychiatry, a medical school program that consistently "delivers" more than a handful of students into psychiatric residencies at graduation is noticed and respected. Indeed, recruitment into psychiatry is seen as reflecting favorably on the field of psychiatry, the training environment of a particular department of psychiatry, and, accordingly, on the work of a medical student education director. Some might argue, in fact, that psychiatry is a discipline especially concerned with recruitment. The reasons for this relate to the public health burden of mental illness and the personal suffering linked with mental illness across all ages, societies, and cultures as well as the insufficient representation of psychiatrists in the physician workforce throughout the world (1). Concerns about recruitment in our field also pertain to the relatively low number of American medical graduates
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Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and Recruitment Into Psychiatry: An Ethical Issue?
Morreale, Mary K.; Balon, Richard; Weiss Roberts, Laura
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, Volume 33 (3): 177
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – May 1, 2009
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