5. Conclusions
psychiatric
DISEASES, DISORDERS
As part of the clinical instruction in psychosomatic medicine in the Düsseldorf model degree program in medicine, future physicians come into supervised contact with patients and are given the opportunity to grapple in detail with psychiatric cases so that they can develop a more accepting attitude toward the mentally ill.This emphasizes the need during medical education to have a sufficient measure of structured, practical contact with psychiatric diseases and disorders and thus continue to confront the problem of stigma, as called for in the NKLM.