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The Future of Psychiatry: Early Career Psychiatrists

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Early career psychiatrists (ECPs) are defined as psychiatry trainees and psychiatrists in their first 7 years since finishing specialty training in their respective home countries. Although this may be a critical moment in the careers of new psychiatrists, it also can be an important period for development and achievement. The goal of this chapter is to briefly state the many possible areas of action for early career psychiatrists, to increase awareness of their current importance, and to stress their crucial role in the future of psychiatry.

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  1. Early Career Psychiatrists Section, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Geneva, Switzerland

    Felipe Picon, Hussien Elkholy, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Prashanth Puspanathan, Takashi Nakamae & Florian Riese

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Felipe Picon

  3. Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Hussien Elkholy

  4. Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Mariana Pinto da Costa

  5. Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Mariana Pinto da Costa

  6. Department of Psychiatry, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Prashanth Puspanathan

  7. Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Takashi Nakamae

  8. Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Florian Riese

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Picon, F., Elkholy, H., da Costa, M.P., Puspanathan, P., Nakamae, T., Riese, F. (2019). The Future of Psychiatry: Early Career Psychiatrists. In: Javed, A., Fountoulakis, K. (eds) Advances in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_9

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