Abstract:

Purpose: AAMAC: In many countries, judicial psychiatry is already defined as a side branch of psychiatry. However, there is no education in our country yet. With this study, in psychiatrists, we wanted to measure the level of knowledge accumulated in the field of judicial psychiatry with the basic perspective of health law and to determine the perspective and determiners of the side branch of judicial psychiatry in the community. Tools and Methods: The data was obtained by the Internet survey method by announcing in the e-mail group in which the majority of psychiatrists in Turkey are members. The sample consists of 207 psychiatrists located throughout Turkey who accept participation in the study, public (Government Hospital, Education and Research Hospital, University Hospital) (184 people) and private hospitals (8 people) and working in the private clinic (15 people). As a data collection tool, the researchers created the "Demographic Information Survey" and the "Psychiatric Doctors' Information Level Survey in Health Law" were used. Results: The average of the answers between 1 and 5 points to the Information Level Survey was 3.44. 187 of the doctors who participated in the study (90.3%) believed that Judicial Psychiatry should be defined as a side branch, while 20 (9.7%) said it was not necessary. Gender, title, not made a legal psychiatric rotation, 8. When the correct answer to the question is checked, the age increases alone, the demand for the Judicial Psychiatry as a side branch increases. Debate: The average level of knowledge is not affected by the title, professional experience, the type of institution taught, practical or theoretical psychiatric training in the assistant period. This may be because the doctors are trying to reach this information with their own efforts. The reason that experienced physicians want to see the judicial psychiatry as a side branch is that these physicians may think that psychiatry should be treated as a whole and that the judicial positions should be at least as dominant as other areas of psychiatry.

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