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The psychiatry recruitment crisis across Europe: Evaluation by the European Federation of psychiatric trainees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

H. Ryland ,
F. Baessler ,
M. Casanova Dias ,
L. De Picker ,
M. Pinto Da Costa ,
A. Kanellopoulos ,
E. Sonmez ,
P. Alfimov ,
D. Sebbane  and
S.M. Birkle
H. Ryland*
Affiliation:
West London Mental Health Trust, Broadmoor Hospital, London, United Kingdom
F. Baessler
Affiliation:
University of Heidelberg, Department of Psychiatry, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Casanova Dias
Affiliation:
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, General Adult Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
L. De Picker
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
M. Pinto Da Costa
Affiliation:
University of Porto, Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal
A. Kanellopoulos
Affiliation:
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Evgenidion Therapeftirion, Athens, Greece
E. Sonmez
Affiliation:
Marmara University, Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey
P. Alfimov
Affiliation:
Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia
D. Sebbane
Affiliation:
University of Lille, Lille, France
S.M. Birkle
Affiliation:
Ruhr-University Bochum, LWL-University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hamm, Germany
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Recruitment of medical students and junior doctors in to psychiatry is a long-standing concern in many countries, with low proportions of medical graduates choosing it as a specialty and ongoing stigma from within the medical profession. In some countries the reverse problem is the case, with too many doctors wishing to enter psychiatry, and insufficient training places available.

Objectives

To understand the current situation within Europe with regards to recruitment in to psychiatry and to identify existing recruitment initiatives.

Methods

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees conducts an annual survey of all member organisations. A delegate of each national association of psychiatric trainees is asked to identify if their country has a problem with recruitment and if so, whether there were too many or too few applicants for training places. Delegates from countries with recruitment initiatives were contacted to provide further details.

Results

In 2014, a total of 31 countries completed the survey, with 17 stating that too few medical practitioners choose psychiatry. In total 8 countries with recruitment problems reported that initiatives exist to encourage doctors to enter psychiatric training. Of these, 7 responded to describe the initiatives, which included national recruitment strategies, financial incentives, careers fairs, mentoring schemes and a whole host of other projects.

Conclusions

Recruitment in to psychiatry remains a serious problem in a significant proportion of European countries, but a wide range of initiatives exist which aim to combat this shortfall. It will be important over the coming years to establish which initiatives are most effective at increasing recruitment.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. s285
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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