Understanding why people think and act as they do is fascinating! You must agree - you’ve chosen a career (medicine/dentistry) that is focused on interacting with different people every day. Not only is psychology fascinating, it is also fundamental to the practice of both medicine and dentistry. How a person thinks, feels and behaves has an enormous impact on their state of health/illness – physical as well as mental. Mental illness (disorders of thoughts, feelings, behaviours) will affect at least 1 in 4 of us at some point in our lives. All doctors and dentists, irrespective of specialty, will need to treat patients with mental illness. Intercalating in Psychological Medicine will benefit any medical or dental student, whatever the field in which they are hoping to work. We have had students on the programme who hope to work in fields such as, general practice, psychiatry, paediatrics, neurology, anaesthetics, general medicine and even surgery!

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