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Some Australian reflections on problems with recruitment into the profession of psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bruce J. Tonge
Bruce J. Tonge*
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Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia, email: bruce.tonge@med.monash.edu.au
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Psychiatry has probably always been the least attractive of the medical specialties. The choice of psychiatry as a career has been consistently low in the English-speaking world over the past 50 years (British Medical Journal, 1973; Feifel et al, 1999; Brockington & Mumford, 2002). Over the past decade there has probably been a further decline in the proportion of medical graduates choosing to train in psychiatry (Sierles & Taylor, 1995; Feifel et al, 1999).

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Thematic papers – Recruitment into psychiatry
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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , pp. 8 - 9
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