Subtheme	Data Extracts
Changed attitude- psychiatry as a subject	N19: Yes, though it was different from medicine, but realized just another face of medicine, a different branch. N22: Yes, it is more interesting than I had anticipated. It is also a lot more nuanced and scientific. N8: It (the clinical posting) created an interest in me for psychiatry and to think of it for my postgraduate.
Changed attitude- psychiatric patients	N19: Yes. I felt the psychiatry as a department which I won’t be able to manage and understand and was scared of mentally ill people. This view of mine was changed. N29: Yes. I thought psychiatric patients are either very violent or very silent. But my opinion changed after interacting with the patients.
Changed attitude- psychiatric illness	N59: Yes, it did change my perception I had about psychiatry. I now understand that mental illnesses are treated like normal disease(s). N53: Yes. Before I was thought that all psychiatric illness are not curable. But now I understand that we can manage with support and medication.
Changed attitude- psychiatrists	N25: Yes, I thought that the doctors in psychiatry ward was having fun and have a chill life compared to other doctors. But I’ve come to know it’s not that way.
Knowledge	N29: Was able to interact (with patients) and learn more about the various situations leading the person to this illness.
Skills acquired- psychiatry-specific	N43: From this posting I have gained the knowledge of how to elicit behavioral or psychiatric problems from the patient normally present in the OPD. N24: Learnt to develop rapport with an uncooperative patient.
Skills acquired-nonpsychiatry	N79: (How) to empathize with patient. N48: Rapport building with patients.
Self-efficacy	N59: Seeing patients and talking to them helped me to grow as a doctor, to build the relationship with the patient.