Education in Psychiatry
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About
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Education in Psychiatry is interested in improving the quality of education in psychiatry at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels across the world. The Section was established in 1970 and is one of the oldest sections in WPA.
The aims of the Section are:
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To update educational curricula for trainees in psychiatry worldwide, and in particular in low and middle income countries
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To develop educational materials about mental health and mental disorders for clinicians, researchers and academics
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To increase the attractiveness of psychiatry as a profession among medical students
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To promote the public image of psychiatry among the general population
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To improve the mental health literacy of the general public
For further information and to contact the Section on Education in Psychiatry, please e-mail: edu.sec.wpa@gmail.com
Section Officers
Chair:
Mariana Pinto da Costa
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience,
King’s College London, London, UK
ICBAS, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
E-mail: mariana.pintodacosta@gmail.com
Co-Chair:
Savita Malhorta
Department of Psychiatry,
Fortis Hospital, Mohali,
Punjab
E-mail: savita.pgi@gmail.com
Secretary:
Nagesh Pai
Graduate School of Medicine,
University of Wollongong,
Australia
E-mail: nagesh@uow.edu.au
Section Committee Members
Djibril Moussa
Amoud University, Borama, Somaliland
Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Francisco Araniva
Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social. Mental Health Team Apopa. San Salvador, El Salvador
Ozge Kilic
Bezmialem Vakif University, Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Neurosciences, Istanbul, Türkiye
Rodrigo Ramallho
Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Sami Ouanes
MindWell, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Snehil Gupta
Department of Psychiatry
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal (AIIMS Bhopal), India
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