Psychiatric disorders represent one of the priority public health problems both in the world and in Croatia. Psychiatric disorders occur as a result of the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social factors. Therefore, the treatment of psychiatric disorders is always multidimensional, and includes psychopharmacological treatment,psychotherapeutic treatment, as well as a range of other complementary therapeutic approaches such as psycho-education, occupational therapy, family therapy, and socio-therapy. The attitudes of today's medical students -future doctors- are important predictors of their care for patients suffering from disorders for which the treatment indicated psychiatric medications and psychotherapy. In this paper we determined the impact of compulsory education in psychiatry on the attitudes of medical students of the fourth year of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb. We tested attitudes toward psychiatric medications and psychotherapy using questionnaires that were filled out twice, at the beginning of psychiatry placement and at the end of psychiatry placement. Questionnaires were completed by 190 students (response rate 79.8 %). Ater the placement, students' views about treatment in psychiatry turned significantly positive; they expressed more positive opinion about benefits of psychiatric medication and psychotherapy, they were less concerned about the risk of psychiatric medications and more prone to take psychiatric medications and attend psychotherapy. Based on our results, we believe that more attention should be paid to the education of psychiatric medication and psychotherapy in order to maintain the positive impact of education, possibly in the later years of college.