OBJECTIVE Undergraduate medical students have ingrained and often negative attitudes towards psychiatry as a field and as a career. This in turn has affected recruitment of graduate medical students into the specialty. Little is known about the impact of psychiatry rotations during undergraduate medical training on students' attitudes about psychiatry and eventual specialty choice in developing...

Although psychiatry has a long tradition in Switzerland, C–L psychiatry is a newcomer. The continuous reduction in recent years of the number of beds in psychiatric hospitals favored the development of C–L services. The results of a survey of C–L psychiatry showed that in Switzerland C–L services are provided in general hospitals, even in the small and rural ones [1]. An important step was achi...

a Center for Behavioral Genomics, Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA b Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA c Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA d Maastricht University Medical Centre, South Limburg Mental Health Research and...

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders related to behaviour, cognition, mood, perceptions, etc. Journal of Psychiatry is an open access peer reviewed international journal that provides a platform for the Researchers of Psychiatry discipline to publish innovative ideas in Psychiatry and outcomes of their research in all the ...

1 Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 2 Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom. 3 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. 5 Division of Psychia...

a Schoen Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany; b Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; c Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany; d Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; e Psychotherapy Private Practice, Münster, Germany; f Schoen K...

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Firat University School of Medicine, Elazı g, Turkey; Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, and School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK; Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,...

In 1960, with the action of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the profession of child psychiatry achieved the status of an accredited subspecialty of psychiatry. As a consequence, a major shift emerged in the base of influence on the academic functions of child psychiatry and the source of fiscal and professional support for child psychiatrists working within academic settings (Al...