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Mobility trends of psychiatric trainees in Turkey: hard to leave, harder to stay?

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) Brain Drain Study Group for their support to this research project.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Koç University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ozge Kilic

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Caycuma State Hospital, Zonguldak, Turkey

    Ekin Sonmez

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Gamze Erzin

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands

    Sinan Guloksuz

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Sinan Guloksuz

  6. Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal

    Mariana Pinto da Costa

  7. Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Mariana Pinto da Costa

  8. Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry (WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development), Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Mariana Pinto da Costa

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Kilic, O., Sonmez, E., Erzin, G. et al. Mobility trends of psychiatric trainees in Turkey: hard to leave, harder to stay?. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 269, 367–369 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0914-2

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