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In Croatia, psychiatric disorders are the leading group of disorders by days of hospitalization and they are in second place according to the number of hospitalizations in the period of working age. Nevertheless, psychiatry in Croatia, as well as in the world, is one of the least attractive specialties for medical students. In this paper we determined the impact of compulsory education in psychiatry on the attitudes of medical students of the fourth year of the Zagreb school of medicine and Osijek school of medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObserving Electroconvulsive Therapy Changes Students' Attitudes: A Survey of Croatian Medical Students.
J ECT
March 2017
From the *Istra Primary Health Care Center, Pula, Croatia; †Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek; ‡Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Osijek, Osijek; §Zagreb Region Primary Health Care Center, Zagreb, Croatia; ∥Centre for Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Szent István and Szent Laszló Hospitals; ¶Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; #Notre Dame University, Australia; **School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; ††Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and ‡‡Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.
Aim: To assess the impact of education and direct observation of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on medical students' attitudes toward ECT in particular and psychiatric treatment in general in Croatia.
Method: Two self-administered questionnaires were completed by year 4 medical students twice, at the beginning and the end of the psychiatry clerkship. Students were divided into 2 groups: those who observed an ECT session (47.