Suicidology in preparation of a medical professional: interdisciplinary approach

The relevance of improving the quality of professional knowledge on suicidology in the medical environment is discussed. The authors note that the idea of suicide is usually associated with psychiatric care and in a wide range of cases raises when students go through a certain cycle, often with clearly insufficient attention to the problem. In graduate education programs, issues of suicidal prevention in an unjustifiably small volume are included in the specialties of "psychiatry", "narcology" and "psychotherapy". The knowledge of doctors of other "non-psychiatric" specialties usually does not exceed the college level, which limits their participation in preventive work, and leads to confusion when facing suicidal actions of their patients. Meanwhile, it is known that before their first attempt, many suiciders turn to interns about various diseases, but do not receive help. Subsequently, only no more than 5% of them continue treatment with a suicidologist (psychiatrist) upon discharge even if there is a crisis department in the structure of hospitals...