Change of medical student attitudes toward psychiatry: the impact of the psychiatric clerkship.

Unlabelled: Psychiatry - as a profession - is getting less and less popular among medical students resulting in a dramatic decrease in number of those choosing this field as a future career.

Aims: This study set out to investigate how undergraduate psychiatric training influenced the attitudes toward psychiatry and the career choices of fifth-year Hungarian medical students.

Methods: Students' attitudes toward psychiatry were measured by the ATP-30 and their preference for a career in medicine was also inquired about.