Recruitment of Psychiatrists: The Key Role of Education

Teaching Psychiatry: Putting Theory into Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5-18

  Ḧoschl, Cyril ^a   van Niekerk, Jon ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education, and its role in reducing stigmatization of mental illness; Ethical implications of recruiting foreign medical doctors from countries, where psychiatrists are scarce; HIV medicine and psychiatry educating the general public with anti stigma campaigns, addressing this; Image of psychiatry, as a modern medical specialty and mental disorders, common in the general population; Psychiatrist recruitment, the key role of education self sufficient workforce for developing and developed nations; Psychiatry recruitment and quality of undergraduate medical school teaching programmes; Royal College of Psychiatrists' Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC) establishing psychiatry interest group societies; Students, choosing psychiatry group, reflective and responsive to abstract ideas; The World Health Organization (WHO)'s recommendation approximately one psychiatrist per 10 000 population; World Psychiatric Association (WPA)'s commitment in enhancing image of psychiatry as a dynamic speciality to the general public

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865195260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470974544.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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