Satisfaction of students with teaching psychiatry and narcology
In the present work students’ satisfaction with teaching psychiatry and narcology in a medical higher education institution was studied. A sample of 203 (45 males and 158 females) fourth to fifth year medical students (the specialty «Pediatrics» - 39; «Stomatology» - 57; «General Medicine» - 107) of the Chuvash State University were invited to complete the DREEM questionnaire. The results were analyzed using ANOVA. 98.5% students are satisfied with teaching psychiatry (completely - 43.8%); the overall DREEM score was 153.1 ( ± 18.1) out of 200. The problems demanding correction were expressed in excessive severity of teachers (The teachers are authoritarian), excessive significance was attached to the actual training (The teaching over-emphasizes factual learning), the importance of long-term training in comparison with short-term wasn’t emphasized (Long-term learning is not emphasized over short-term learning). The approved questionnaire was the suitable tool allowing estimating in a complex various aspects of training of medical students (medical education environment). For the solution of the revealed problem it is necessary to improve working conditions of teachers of a medical higher education institution, to raise their salary, to minimize stresses and other negative psychological professional factors (including a syndrome of emotional burning out).