Psychiatric trainees’ view on a European curriculum of psychiatry

Abstract

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) represents the consensus of psychiatry trainees associations across more than 30 European countries, advocating for the improvement and harmonization of psychiatry training across Europe. This federation has as priority to get direct feedback from psychiatry trainees, analyzing the concerns related to psychiatry and training in Europe, collaborating with other national and international partners to translate trainees’ views into action, while offering trainees several opportunities.

Surveys of psychiatry trainees show that the main concerns around Europe revolve around differences of duration of training in the different countries, the discrepancies between the European training standards, the national programmes and the real experience of trainees. Likewise, levels of recruitment into psychiatry and inadequate working conditions also concern trainees, especially at the current times of economic challenge, where the choice to migrate abroad is quite frequent. Nevertheless, the involvement of psychiatry trainees in the development of national programmes and in the quality assurance of training varies significantly around Europe.

This presentation will highlight the current differences observed in the structure, content and duration of psychiatry training programs in Europe, reporting trainees’ views on a European curriculum of psychiatry, and exploring mechanisms to evaluate and harmonize the postgraduate training in Europe.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.