Teaching psychiatric consultation skills by video interview: a survey of student opinion

Medical undergraduates may be taught psychiatric consultation skills by rev iewing videotaped interviews which they have conducted with patients. To da te, there is a paucity of research regarding students' evaluation of this m ethod of teaching and its impact oil their attitudes to psychiatry. In this study, medical undergraduates' opinions regarding video interview training and their attitudes to psychiatry were assessed after completion of a psyc hiatric clerkship. Although some students described embarrassment at seeing themselves on screen, the overall response to video training teas positive . There was no relationship between students' evaluation of video training and their attitudes to psychiatry.