The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran: a unique academic and personal experience

The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran is an academic experience we are delighted to share. As two participating early career psychiatrists, a local psychiatry faculty member manager, and the lead founder and international coordinator of the programme, we focus in this article on the unfoldin...

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Main Authors: Cyrine Ben Said, Hela Ben Abid, Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Mariana Pinto da Costa
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-08-01
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description The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran is an academic experience we are delighted to share. As two participating early career psychiatrists, a local psychiatry faculty member manager, and the lead founder and international coordinator of the programme, we focus in this article on the unfolding of this new learning experience, the difficulties we encountered and the main lessons learned by the participants: commonalities and differences in training and practice in general adult psychiatry and child psychiatry in Tunisia and Iran, as well as in idioms of distress between the Arab and Persian cultures.
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spelling doaj.art-d4b47ed37462490c9346e530a62f9b6c2023-08-16T11:00:48ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642023-08-0120717310.1192/bji.2023.11The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran: a unique academic and personal experienceCyrine Ben Said0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4808-7446Hela Ben Abid1Mohammadreza Shalbafan2Mariana Pinto da Costa3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5966-5723Assistant Professor of Adult Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia. Email:Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Monastir University, Monastir, TunisiaAssistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranConsultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UKThe World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran is an academic experience we are delighted to share. As two participating early career psychiatrists, a local psychiatry faculty member manager, and the lead founder and international coordinator of the programme, we focus in this article on the unfolding of this new learning experience, the difficulties we encountered and the main lessons learned by the participants: commonalities and differences in training and practice in general adult psychiatry and child psychiatry in Tunisia and Iran, as well as in idioms of distress between the Arab and Persian cultures.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474023000119/type/journal_articleEducationtrainingtranscultural psychiatryexchangelow- and middle-income countries
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transcultural psychiatry
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low- and middle-income countries
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