World Psychiatric Association-Asian Journal of Psychiatry Commission on Psychiatric Education in the 21st century

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103739
• Publication Date: 2023-08-12T06:02:05Z
• Authors: Dinesh Bhugra; Alexander Smith; Antonio Ventriglio; Marc H.M. Hermans; Roger Ng; Afzal Javed; Egor Chumakov; Anindya Kar; Roxanna Ruiz; Maria Oquendo; Margaret S. Chisolm; Ursula Werneke; Uma Suryadevara; Michael Jibson; Jacqueline Hobbs; Joao Castaldelli-...; Muralidharan Nair; Shekhar Seshadri; Alka Subramanyam; Nanasaheb Patil; Prabha Chandra; Michael Liebrenz
• Keywords: Psychiatry; Asia; CanMEDs; Mental Disorders; Advocate; Psychiatric teaching; World Psychiatric Association; Psychiatric competencies; 610 Medicine & health; 21st century; Psykiatri; 3. Good health; Psychotherapy; CanMED; Professionalism; Humans; Female; Psychiatric education; Psychiatric competencie

Psychiatric practice faces many challenges in the first quarter of 21st century. Society has transformed as have training requirements and patient expectations, underlining an urgent need to look at educational programmes. Meanwhile, awareness grown around psychiatric disorders there are evolving workforce trends, with more women going medical school specialising psychiatry. Trainee psychiatrists carry different expectations for work-life balance increasingly becoming conscious their own mental health. A tendency see health a commodity litigious nature society elicited additional pressures healthcare professionals. Cartesian mind-body dualism created further complexity this can often be frustrating patients care-partners alike. In cultures across Asia beyond, present physical symptoms express underlying psychological distress increasing investigations. Simultaneously, various countries, shift from asylums community-based interventions then home treatments changed care remarkable ways. These changes added faced by However, trainees other professionals continue receive similar they did generation ago. The tensions differences ideology/orientation between branches psychiatry made responses needs challenging. Recognising that it is difficult predict future, World Association-Asian Journal Psychiatry Commission makes recommendations could help institutions individuals enhance education. This draws existing resources recent developments propose framework future psychiatrists.