Working Group on
Medical Students
Medical Students
About
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) WPA Working Group (WG) on Medical Students has been tasked with the
following :
- To identify various areas of promoting psychiatry as a career among medical students and develop recommendations for WPA’s involvement in research, education and service development relevant to medical students.
- To identify organizations, centres and individuals interested and willing to participate in and promote WPA’s action plan in promoting psychiatry among medical students.
- To liaise with other WPA Action Plan Working Groups with a view to ensure that the action plan regarding medical students is considered in the work of this group.
- To support medical students around the world.
Working Group Leadership Team
MD, DFAACAP, DFAPA, Chair and Professor,
Department of Psychiatry Sidra Medicine/Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center
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MBBS, FRCPsych (London), MRCPsych (London), MHPE,
Professor, Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, King Edward Medical University/Mayo Hospital, Lahore,
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MD, DFAPA, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego.
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Director, Undergraduate Education Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Outpatient Youth Psychiatry Program, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa.
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Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Western Australia Medical School,
Consultant Psychiatrist, Fremantle Hospital, Perth, Australia
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Former Head of the Department of Psychiatry, King George’s Medical University and
Consultant Psychiatrist, Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals, Lucknow, India.
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Working Group activities and news
The below documents highlight some of the recent activities the Working Group on Medical Student has been doing this triennium:
Capacity Building Session with Medical Students in Lahore, Pakistan
Medical Students Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health
Medical Students Session in India
Recent Medical students Session in Russia
Publication on WPA Medical Students Event in Qatar
AUTP News Brief
Bernardo Ng, MD, of WPA Medical Students Working Group to present at 2021 World Congress of Psychiatry
Session Held at WPA Regional Virtual Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 16-18 May 2021
Ottawa Psychiatry Enrichment Program (OPEP) hosts 9 first- and second-year medical students for weeklong
training - July 2021
The hidden crisis: COVID-19 and impact on mental health of medical students in Pakistan" - (Middle East
Current
Psychiatry Journal - Imran, N., Haider, I.I., Mustafa, A.B. et al.) - 1 September 2021
The Ottawa Psychiatry Enrichment Program (OPEP) 2022
Final Report WPA Working Group on Medical Students November 2023
