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Arch Hellen Med, 23(4), July-August 2006, 379-392

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Inter-university harmonization ïf undergraduate and graduate education in psychiatry.
Consensus statement of the Hellenic College of Academic Psychiatry

C. SOLDATOS,1 V. MAVREAS,2 G. KAPRINIS,3 S. BERATIS,4 N. ANGELOPOULOS,5 M. LIVADITIS,6 P. SKAPINAKIS,2 É. ZERVAS,1 E. LYKOURAS7
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens,
2Department of Psychiatry, University of Ioannina,
3Department of Psychiatry, University of Thessaloniki,
4Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras,
5Department of Psychiatry, University of Thessalia,
6Department of Psychiatry, University of Thrace,
72nd Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Greece

The rapid changes in the field of psychiatry and the demands of the European and other international organizations responsible for training in psychiatry, create an indisputable need to harmonize the educational programs of the various Greek medical schools, and to reach an inter-university agreement as to what should be included in the psychiatric education curriculum of the medical student and of the psychiatric trainee. The Hellenic College of Academic Psychiatry (HCAP) was constituted as an inter-university organization having as one of its aims to coordinate efforts to modernize and harmonize the academic educational programs in psychiatry in Greece. In this article the process followed by the HCAP members is presented and the final consensus texts reached for undergraduate and postgraduate training in psychiatry.

Key words: Academic Psychiatry, Graduate, Psychiatric education, Undergraduate.

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