Aims of Teachers of Psychiatry in Five Medical Schools

Abstract

Educational objectives in medical school training used to be stated in global terms, seldom possible to implement and still more difficult to test ( Objectives of Medical Education, 1953). The student's training hopefully was required to help him “to respect the rights and dignities of patients”, or towards “expecting to be a student all his life”. How to evaluate the presence or absence of these qualities after training was not conveyed either by the form or by the sometimes frankly inspirational language in which the objectives were stated.