[A different look at the quality of psychiatry education: trainee perspective]. / Kwaliteit van de opleiding tot psychiater anders bezien ­ de blik van de aios.

BACKGROUND: The (medical) educational literature does not contain an unequivocal answer to the question 'what is a good quality post-graduate education in psychiatry?'.
AIM: To describe the meaning of 'quality' and the role of psychiatrists in training (residents or trainees) in achieving and monitoring high-quality post-graduate psychiatry education in the Netherlands.
METHOD: Critical consideration of the current system of post-graduate education in psychiatry.
RESULTS: A qualitatively good post-graduate training system offers residents an optimal learning climate in which the individual development plan is central and there is opportunity to acquire a good basis for all competency domains. Possibilities for improvement concern the quality of supervisors, flexibility in internships and curricular education, and extra attention for management and policy skills.
CONCLUSION: Suggestions are made for further development of post-graduate psychiatry training in the Netherlands.

Mental problems among first-year conservatory students compared with medical students.

Musical education and the musical profession can be stressful, which may make musicians vulnerable for stress-related disorders. To determine if music students are particularly at risk for mental problems, we used the Standardised Assessment of Personality-Abbreviated Scale (SAPAS) and the Symptom Questionnaire (SQ48S) to compare symptoms in first-year conservatory students (n=33) and first-year medical students (n=43). On the SAPAS, we found that medical students have significantly more difficulty making and keeping friends (p=0.015). Also, we observed a trend that conservatory students lose their temper more easily (p=0.040). Both student groups showed high scores for the personality trait "perfectionism." On the SQ48, we observed a trend that both conservatory and medical students experience more psychological problems than the general population, but there were no significant differences between conservatory students and medical students in the total scores of both questionnaires.