The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section of Early Career Psychiatrists aims to represent and support psychiatric trainees/residents and early career psychiatrists across the world.

In 2003, the WPA Executive Committee created the Young Psychiatrists Council, targeting all trainees and early career psychiatrists registered in national psychiatric associations. Later, in 2009 this was restructured as the WPA Early Career Psychiatrists Council, with one representative nominated for a term of three years by each WPA Member Society. In 2014, a group of early career psychiatrists proposed the creation of a WPA Early Career Psychiatrists Section, and in 2015 the Section was established (Pinto da Costa, 2020).

 

WPA early career psychiatrist section membership

• overarching term, as it represents and supports both psychiatric trainees/residents and early career psychiatrists (up to seven years after becoming specialists in psychiatry)

• no age limit

• no financial membership cost

 

For further information and to contact the Section of Early Career Psychiatrists, please e-mail: wpa.ecp.section@gmail.com