Undergraduate psychiatric education: a snapshot of medical students across the world

The exposure to psychiatry during medical education can contribute to increase recruitment and retention in the specialty1, 2. This is particularly important as psychiatry as a career choice seems to be on the decline worldwide3. Furthermore, while psychiatric education at the postgraduate level has been researched to some extent4, 5, 6, very little is known about how this education is included in undergraduate curricula at the global level, and even less about how medical students actually receive it across the world