Discussion and conclusion
auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, agitation, psychiatric, impulsive behavior, coronavirus disease 2019
PATHOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019, DISORDERS
With the rapid development of Chinese society, competitiveness, pressures and conflicts between what people desire and external reality have increased the prevalence of mental problems and disorders. This and the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 have exacerbated the preexisting shortage of mental healthcare professionals. The Chinese government issued the National Mental Health Work Plan (2015–2020)Psychopathology is a bridge linking basic medicine and clinical psychiatry, just as pathology and pathophysiology are “bridge” subjects linking basic and clinical medicine. Teaching psychopathology to medical students is challenging because few students have been exposed to mental illness. This is particularly true in China, where medical students are undergraduates, in contrast to the older postgraduates in many Western countriesTo address this problem, we are aware of at least one textbook, Precisely because of these limitations, some psychopathology courses have allowed students to attend mental examinations, during which some patients with typical psychiatric symptoms are interviewed. While this can deepen students’ understanding of symptoms, it may induce stigma in patients and lead to uncontrollable or unpredictable reactions, including agitation, impulsive behavior, silence, rejection, or even attempts to escape. This practice may be ethically problematicAn alternative for teaching psychopathology is using movie clips, which are easily accepted and understood by studentsAt the same time, using analysis of movie characters to teach psychopathology poses some challenges. For example, appropriate characters and film clips should be chosen carefully and dialectically, and students should remain focused on the symptomatology and not lose sight of learning objectives by getting lost in the plot. Since passive watching is not the same as active learning, teachers should carefully balance the visual and emotional effects of the movie clips against a “dry” theoretical approach. Furthermore, clips are visual media in which visual symptoms such as hallucinations may be clearer and more memorable to students than symptoms involving other senses, such as auditory hallucinations. For example, the clips in Our work confirms and extends several previous studiesOur study is limited by the fact that we used an unvalidated self-report tool to assess interest, acceptance and understanding of the field. It is also limited by our relatively small sample, and the fact that we did not consider potential gender differences. Therefore, our findings should be verified and extended in larger studies that involve a broader range of objective assessments, preferably which have already been validated for accuracy and reliability, and that compare genders.