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Mental Health Themed Student Selected Components: A Strategy To Increase Recruitment Into Psychiatric Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2025

T. I. D. Parry ,
D. Levy  and
S. De Souza
T. I. D. Parry*
Affiliation:
Medical Education, Somerset Foundation Trust, Taunton
D. Levy
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Bristol
S. De Souza
Affiliation:
Somerset Foundation trust, Taunton, United Kingdom
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The University of Bristol Medical School, United Kingdom, has student-selected components (SSC) making up a substantial proportion of its curriculum. This practice is common among UK medical schools. SSCs can inspire interest in specialities that students may have less exposure to during undergraduate training, such as psychiatry. Psychiatry has a broad range of sub-specialities and themes which can be explored in an SSC. The author supervised one such project in which a student researched and produced a series of podcasts about the science of happiness.

Objectives

To explore the use of student-selected components (SSC) in increasing exposure to psychiatry in the undergraduate curriculum

To explore the impact of student-selected components (SSC) in increasing recruitment into psychiatric training

Methods

An initial literature review was performed with the following keywords using Medline on OvidSP.

Results

Fourteen papers addressed the use of psychiatry student-selected components (SSC) in undergraduate medical education and their influence on career specialty choice.

Conclusions

Student-selected components (SSC) are an important strategy for increasing exposure to psychiatry in undergraduate medical education and recruitment into psychiatry.

Keywords

Medical undergraduate education, elective, student-selected components, special study modules, psychiatry, mental health.

Disclosure of Interest

None Declared

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European Psychiatry , Volume 68 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2025 , pp. S1177
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