Medical students’ view of psychology lectures

From helping with patients' stress levels, to their adherence to treatment, psychology is now recognised as vital not only to mental health care but to physical health care too. In fact, it's impossible to draw a clear line between the two. So psychology has become a core component of curricula for medical students around the world.

But though the importance of psychology is recognised officially by teaching bodies, it's not clear that jobbing medical lecturers have the same opinion. In turn, their scepticism may be influencing medical students.

Read the results of a new survey on our Research Digest blog.

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