RATING OF PSYCHIATRISTS AND ATTITUDE OF THE STUDENTS OF MEDICAL FACULTY TOWARD PSYCHIATRY
Three hundred (300) students of the Medical Department (140 students of the fourth course who didn't study the course «Psychiatry and addiction psychiatry» and 160 students of the fifth course who studied it) were interviewed by sociological method (anonymous). The subjects of interviewing were the following: motivation of future profession choice, rating of medical profession, information about psychiatry, psychiatrists, mental diseases and mental patients. The following results were concluded: poor rating of psychiatrists, low popularity of the specialty «Psychiatry» as future profession, cautious attitude to word psychiatrists, and also rather high frequency of occurrence of archaic view of mental diseases, its etiology and possible methods of treatment. There are discussions about the ways of rating rising of psychiatric service and degree of trust to it from the side of medical community and society as a whole