Education in Psychiatry

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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:

To update educational curricula for trainees in psychiatry worldwide, and in particular in low and middle income countries
To develop educational materials about mental health and mental disorders for clinicians, researchers and academics
To increase the attractiveness of psychiatry as a profession among medical students
To promote the public image of psychiatry among the general population
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:

Section officers

Chair:

Andrea Fiorillo

Address: Department of Psychiatry University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”,
Largo Madonna delle Grazie,
80138 Naples, Italy
Phone: +39 081 5666531
Fax: +39 081 5666523
E-mail: andrea.fiorillo@unicampania.it

Co-Chair

Hussien Elkholy

Address: Okasha Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine,

Ain Shams University,

Cairo, Egypt
E-mail: h.elkholy@med.asu.edu.eg

Secretary

Mariana Pinto da Costa

Address: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK

Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar,

University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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