| Summary: | Introduction:We aimed to evaluate of attitudes and thoughts of 5thgrade medical faculty students towards psychiatry before and after psychiatryinternship in this study.Methods:Of fifth grade, 65 student of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty ofMedicine participated in this study. These students were asked to fill out thequestionnaire of “Attitudes and Thoughts towards Psychiatry” before and afterthe psychiatric internship. This questionnaire consists of 38 questions, aboutattitudes towards psychiatry, psychiatric treatment and psychiatrists. The SPSS Package Program 20.0 statistical program was used for dataanalysis. Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro Wilk and Paired Samples Test were used.Results:64.3% (n=36) of the study group were female, and 35.7% (n = 20) of the studygroup were male. 49.0% of the students preferred "internal sciences",49.0% preferred "surgical sciences", and 2.0% "basicsciences". A total 14 questions from 38 questions were found to bestatistically significant after the internship.Conclusion:It was observed that there were positive attitudes about the benefits ofpsychiatric treatment and consultation services after the internship comparedto the pre-internship, decreased negative thoughts about psychiatric patientsand psychiatristsin students of faculty of medicine. Despite the generallypositive changes in psychiatric science, decreased preference of psychiatry havebeen observed in students of faculty of medicine.
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