A survey of 131 psychologists, psychiatrists, and nonpsychiatrist
physicians taken to determine what doctors of medicine should know about
psychiatry revealed that of the 21 topics assessed, there was a significant
intergroup agreement on the 10 most important and the 5 least important
topics. Interviewing, suicide evaluation, the chronically ill or dying
patient, and psychiatric referral received high ratings by each group, and
psychoanalytic theory, psychodynamics, and mental retardation received
uniformly low ratings. The authors believe that these findings provide
useful information for planning an undergraduate curriculum in
psychiatry.Abstract Teaser