Background. The global burden of mental disorders continues to grow with significant health, social, and economic consequences. Unfortunately, the gap between need for healthcare its provision remains wide all over world. recruitment retention psychiatrists is a long-standing concern in United Arab Emirates, social stigma playing potential role. This study aimed at investigating factors that af...

Background: Clinical supervision is an important factor in the development of competency in residency program. Attending physicians play a key role in supervision of residents. However little is known about how attending physicians and residents perceive the quality of clinical supervision. The aim of this study was to explore the differences between perceived qualities of supervision in t...

Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and an Investigator in the VA Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Palo Alto VA. Dr. Etkin received his MD/PhD at Columbia University with Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, completed his psychiatry residency and concurrent postdoc at Stanford Uni...

Despite the high prevalence of psychiatric and behavioral problems in primary care, many physicians receive little training in psychiatry. A model curriculum has been developed for the Federated Council for Internal Medicine Task Force on the Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum. A detailed description of the curriculum was outlined by Steven A. Cole and colleagues (General Hospital Psychiatr...

University-trained psychiatrists frequently avoid public-sector employment because they do not wish to be associated with stigmatized institutions. Inspirational recruitment--the elevation of poorly paid and unpleasant work to a noble cause--is one way of temporarily destigmatizing state psychiatry. The authors describe the impact of one such effort, the Maryland Plan, on recruitment of graduat...

I am Dr. Harvey Bluestone, Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of Psychiatry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, a major training affiliate of the medical school. I would like to welcome everyone to the debate on “Should Clinical Training in Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Be Mandatory in Residency Training?” The crowded room in the face of exciti...

Background: Hobbies may be used on the residency application to communicate similarity other members of their desired specialty or uniqueness. Objectives: This study aimed determine most common hobbies among emergency medicine (EM) applicants and whether they differ from reported applicants. Methods: was a two-center retrospective review at large U.S. midwestern academic institutions with 3- 4-...

Background The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada specifies both respect for diversity as a requirement of professionalism and culturally sensitive provision of medical care. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the perception of preparedness and attitudes of medical residents to deliver cross-cultural care. Methods The Cross Cultural Care Survey was sent via e-mai...

Polarization of biological and psychosocial aspects of psychiatry determines the artificial division of the "biological" psychiatrists and psychiatrists "psychotherapists". This division resulted from a certain dose of mystification of the psychotherapeutic work of those practicing, and fear of psychological determinism of the functioning, of those who are looking for answers in the biological ...