Table 5.

Career and personal reward (percentage of students)

	Before (%)				After (%)				Statistics
Question	SA	MA	MD	SD	SA	MA	MD	SD	Z	p
16. Psychiatry has a low prestige among the general public.	7.9	40.5	41.8	9.8	2.6	53.6	34	9.8	1.36	0.42,ns
17. Psychiatry has a high status among other medical disciplines.	3.3	23.5	64.7	8.5	2	41.8	51.6	4.6	2.64	.008
18. Many people who could not obtain a residency position in other specialties eventually enter psychiatry.	2	16.3	37.3	44.4	0.7	18.3	37.2	43.8	.02	.97,ns
19. Psychiatry is a discipline filled with international medical graduates whose skills are of low quality.	3.9	7.2	45.8	43.1	2	0.7	31.3	66	3.75	.0001
20. My family discouraged me from entering psychiatry.	11.8	19	17.6	51.6	4.6	26.1	26.1	43.2	.18	.85
21. Friends and fellow students discouraged me from entering psychiatry.	9.2	19.6	31.3	39.9	3.3	24.2	30.7	41.8	.84	.39
22. If a student expresses interest in psychiatry, he or she risks being associated with a group of other would-be psychiatrists who are often seen by others as odd, peculiar, or neurotic.	6.5	28.1	30.7	34.7	3.9	24.2	36.6	35.3	.92	.35,ns
23. I feel uncomfortable with mentally ill patients.	8.5	43.8	29.4	18.3	4.6	25.5	35.3	34.6	3.76	.0001

SA = Strongly agree; MA = Moderately agree; MD = Moderately disagree; SD = Strongly disagree.