Supportive psychotherapy is a key foundation for informed interactions between medical professionals and psychiatric patients. During their education, medical students learn how to create a patient-physician relationship, an experience that can be particularly complex during their psychiatry clerkship. We have observed that medical students often struggle to interact empathically with their patients; students express that they are concerned about making patients symptoms worse through their interactions and about not knowing specifically what to do during difficult interactions. Perhaps reflecting their discomfort, students also report frustration with a lack of therapy training during their psychiatry clerkship. This may be because medical students often do not have backgrounds in psychotherapeutic theory or technique, and the clerkship may be their first formal exposure to significant psychiatric illness. However, the psychiatry clerkship provides an excellent opportunity to address medical students anxiety, teach key therapeutic techniques, and provide hands-on experience in developing the ability to form a patient-physician relationship. Therapy training during the clerkship also has the potential to inform students future interactions with patients outside of the psychiatry clerkship and to satisfy requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) (1). To assess available tools for addressing these issues, we reviewed
Supportive Psychotherapy: A Crash Course for Medical Students
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Supportive psychotherapy is a key foundation for informed interactions between medical professionals and psychiatric patients. During their education, medical students learn how to create a patient-physician relationship, an experience that can be particularly complex during their psychiatry clerkship. We have observed that medical students often struggle to interact empathically with their patients; students express that they are concerned about making patients symptoms worse through their interactions and about not knowing specifically what to do during difficult interactions. Perhaps reflecting their discomfort, students also report frustration with a lack of therapy training during their psychiatry clerkship. This may be because medical students often do not have backgrounds in psychotherapeutic theory or technique, and the clerkship may be their first formal exposure to significant psychiatric illness. However, the psychiatry clerkship provides an excellent opportunity to address medical students anxiety, teach key therapeutic techniques, and provide hands-on experience in developing the ability to form a patient-physician relationship. Therapy training during the clerkship also has the potential to inform students future interactions with patients outside of the psychiatry clerkship and to satisfy requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) (1). To assess available tools for addressing these issues, we reviewedPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Supportive Psychotherapy: A Crash Course for Medical Students
Philip, Noah S.; Rost-Banik, Donald; Shaffer, Scott; Johnson, Benjamin; Boland, Robert
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, Volume 34 (1): 57
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Jan 1, 2010
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