World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 208: The Undergraduate Teaching of Psychiatry and Mental Health Promotion

By J. Leme Lopes

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 208: The Undergraduate Teaching of Psychiatry and Mental Health Promotion
Author:	J. Leme Lopes
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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THE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING OF PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION Ninth Report of the Expert Committee on hIental Health The Expert Committee on Mental Health met in Geneva from 13 to 17 June 1960 to discuss the undergraduate teaching of psychiatry and mental health promotion. The meeting was opened by Dr M. G. Candau, Director-General, who pointed out that, in its first report, the Expert Committee on Mental Health recommended the recasting of undergraduate medical education to ensure that it gives to the undergraduate an understanding of normal psychological developn~ent and of the origin and nature of common psychological disorders equal to that which is already provided in the organic field . However, a realistic effort to improve the teaching of psychiatry and mental health promotion sl~ould not be limited merely to proposing a set of principles. It ought at the same time, and in the most concrete way possikle, to deal with the contents and methods of psychiatric teaching. It n.as hoped that the discussions of the Expert Committee would help to clarify these points and thereby provide the elements for an orientation of p;~-chiatric and mental health teaching directed not only to the trainins of future psychiatrists but also, and even predominantly, to the preparation of the physician for general practice.

Table of Contents
1. The relationship of psychiatry and mental health promotion to medicine and the sciences of man . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Aims of the undergraduate teaching of psychiatry and mental health promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. The teaching of neurology and rhe biological sciences in relation to psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4. The teaching of medical psychology and sociology . . . . 11 5. Conditions which influence the conrent and method of the undergraduate teaching of psychiarrl- and mental health promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6. The content of teaching in psychiatry and mental health promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7. Methods of teaching psychiatry and mental health promotion 25 8. The place of psychiatry and mental health promotion in the curriculun~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 9. Staff requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 10. The role of the World Health Organization in assisting the development of undergraduate teaching of psychiatry and mental health promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35