Medical Students Reflect on Psychiatric Training Inside Prison, Study Finds

Medical Students Reflect on Psychiatric Training Inside Prison, Study Finds

When medical students step inside a prison psychiatric clinic for the first time, most carry with them a mental image assembled from television dramas, news headlines, and secondhand stories: a dangerous, chaotic place filled with aggressive people who cannot be trusted. A newly published qualitative study suggests that a single elective rotation in carceral psychiatry may be enough to dismantle that image. Researchers at the University of North…