Retention in psychiatry

Recruitment and retention in psychiatry

We read with interest the literature review by Brockington & Mumford (2002) on recruitment into psychiatry. We agree it is possible that recruitment might be improved by influencing medical student intakes and having greater understanding of the pathways leading to a psychiatric career. However, we believe that the factors governing career choice at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels ar...

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Novel consensus quantitative structure-retention relationship method in prediction of pesticides retention time in nano-LC

In this study, quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) methodology employed for modeling of the retention times of 16 banned pesticides in nano-liquid chromatography (nano-LC) column. Genetic algorithm-multiple linear regression (GA-MLR) method employed for developing global and consensus QSRR models. The best global GA-MLR model was established by adjusting GA parameters. Three de...

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