From 1969 to 1979 senior medical students from the University of
Colorado School of Medicine entered psychiatric residencies at an average
rate of 3.8%. The university gradually instituted a series of changes in
its undergraduate psychiatric education program for medical students, and
the senior class of 1980 was the first to be exposed to all of the changes.
In 1980-1982 7.7% of the seniors went into psychiatric residencies. The
authors describe the curriculum changes and speculate that more attention
to the quality of medical students' psychiatric education at the
undergraduate level enhances recruitment into psychiatric residencies.Abstract Teaser