#ChoosePsychiatry #the60secondchallenge - a thematic analysis of videos published on Twitter about reasons for choosing psychiatry.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Aims and Method #ChoosePsychiatry is the Royal College of Psychiatrist's social media campaign aimed at medical students and foundation doctors to encourage recruitment into psychiatry.

Danger ahead: challenges in undergraduate psychiatry teaching and implications for community psychiatry.

This editorial discusses current challenges faced by educators in undergraduate psychiatry in a community setting. It explores day-to-day difficulties faced by clinical educators and also considers the changing landscape of community services and how this might have an impact on learning opportunities. We call for efforts to improve undergraduate teaching in community psychiatry.

Self-burning in Iraqi Kurdistan: proportion and risk factors in a burns unit.

To determine the rate of self-burning among all burns patients admitted to the Burns and Plastic Surgery Centre at Sulaimani University in Iraqi Kurdistan and to identify the risk factors and motives, all burns patients, aged 8 years and over, admitted between 1 September 2009 and 30 April 2010 were surveyed. Of the 200 patients interviewed, 54 (27%) reported self-burns and 146 (73%) reported accidental burns. The risk factors for self-burning included mental illness, female gender and younger age.

Development of a reliable and valid questionnaire to test the prostate cancer knowledge of men with the disease.

Several prostate cancer knowledge questionnaires exist but none have demonstrated both reliability and validity when used by men with the disease. This study aims to develop a reliable and valid knowledge questionnaire for men with prostate cancer. After developing a 40-item Prostate Cancer Knowledge Questionnaire (PCKQ-40) in phase I, it was piloted in phase II with 391 medical students.