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USING EXPERTS BY PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (EPPE) TO INCREASE INTEREST IN PSYCHIATRY AS A CAREER AT SIXTH-FORM LEVEL
Ahmed Hankir
; Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge (CMHR-CU), Cambridge, UK ;South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ;Department of Psychiatry, Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jahangir Mahmood
; Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Nour Houbby
; Imperial College London School of Medicine, London, UK
Sabah Ali
; Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, UK
Frederick R. Carrick
; Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge (CMHR-CU;Department of Neurology, Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA ;Neurology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA ;Medical Education, MGH Institute for Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA), Cambridge, UK;
Rashid Zaman
; Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge (CMHR-CU), Cambridge, UK;;Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, UK ;Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Background: Psychiatrists play a multifaceted and critical role in improving the lives of people with mental illness. However,
despite how rewarding, important and thrilling a career in mental health is, there continues to remain a shortage of psychiatrists in
Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries. There has been resurgence in interest in improving the image of psychiatry over recent
years and several initiatives have been launched to increase recruitment into the specialty at Sixth Form level in the UK.
Design: We conducted a single-arm, pre-post, comparison study with Sixth Form students at an inner-city school in London.
Students were invited to complete a survey before and after exposure to an assembly on mental health that was delivered by an
Expert by Personal and Professional Experience (EPPE). Our aims were to detect and measure if there were any changes in
perceptions of psychiatry and if there was an increase in interest in pursuing this profession as a career in this group.
Results: 63 out of 123 participants completed the before and after survey (51% response rate). Following exposure to the
assembly, there were statistically significant improvements between the pre- and post- intervention means for, “Psychiatry has a
positive impact on peoples’ lives” (p value <0.0001), “People with mental illness can achieve success and be the best at what they
do” (p value <0.0001) and, “I would consider psychiatry as a career” (p value <0.0001).
Conclusion: Notwithstanding the limitations of this pilot study, our findings suggest that an assembly on mental health delivered
by an EPPE (i.e. ‘Wounded Healer’) might be effective at increasing interest in psychiatry as a career at Sixth Form level. We suggest
that assemblies on mental health and psychiatry be delivered by ‘Wounded Healers’ in schools and colleges nationwide to help drive
recruitment into psychiatry.
Ključne riječi
psychiatry; recruitment; experts by personal and professional experience; Sixth Form students
Hrčak ID:
263308
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Datum izdavanja:
4.9.2019.
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