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Teaching psychiatry in Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Charlotte Hanlon ,
Daniel Fekadu ,
Danny Sullivan ,
Atalay Alem  and
Martin Prince
Charlotte Hanlon
Affiliation:
Wellcome Fellow in Tropical Clinical Epidemiology, c/o Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 9086, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, email [email protected] or [email protected]
Daniel Fekadu
Affiliation:
King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, London, UK
Danny Sullivan
Affiliation:
King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, London, UK
Atalay Alem
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University
Martin Prince
Affiliation:
King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, UK
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There is a pressing need to train psychiatrists in low- and middle-income countries. Psychiatrists from high-income countries have an opportunity to share expertise in teaching and assessing trainees, while learning much in the process. Three trainees from a London psychiatric hospital were invited to help organise a revision course for the Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, and this paper reports their experiences.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 43 - 46
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