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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S14–S17 S17
EFPT/ECPC-EPA Symposium – Research by
Trainees and early career psychiatrists
EECP 08
How EFPT trainee-led cross-national
research can change training in
psychiatry
L. De Picker ∗, T. Mogren , S. Tomori
1 University of Antwerp, Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research
Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
2 Allmänpsykiatriska kliniken Falun & Säter, Department of
Psychiatry, Falun, Sweden
3 Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center “Mother
Teresa”, Tirana, Albania
∗ Corresponding author.
Established in 2008, the Research Working Group of the European
Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) creates a platform for
trainee-led collaborative studies. Several large-scale transnational
studies on training-related subjects have been initiated and carried
out, driven by psychiatry trainees. Examples of recent and ongoing
projects are the Brain Drain study, which investigated migratory
experiences and attitudes among trainees in Europe, and the TEO-
PC project, which aims to raise awareness on UEMS Psychiatric
competencies as well as to compile data on trainees’ experiences
and satisfaction with their national training programs.
Earlier projects leading to publications have looked into drug pre-
scription habits of trainees nd the interactions trainees with
pharmaceutical industry Besides these projects, EFPT yearly
gathers reports from the representatives of the national trainees
associations on the structure, content and conditions of psychiatry
training in all member countries. The information obtained through
these channels is used actively to guide and influence policy related
to psychiatry training, through collaboration with relevant organi-
zations involved in the creation of guidelines, and through the EFPT
statements, which serve to empower trainees themselves.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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EECP 09
Brain Drain Project
M. Pinto da Costa
Psychiatry Department of Porto, Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto,
Portugal
Despite the ongoing reality of workforce migration, information
on medical migration is missing, with lack of detailed evidence of
transnational migrations within Europe, obscuring the extent of
how migration occurs amongst the different medical specialties.
The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) has been
pioneer in researching workforce migration in junior doctors, con-
ducting the EFPT Brain Drain study, which explored the reasons
and patterns of mobility and migration in 33 European countries
among junior doctors training in psychiatry.
The intention has been to better understand the migration
phenomena, its reasoning and effects in order to give practical
proposals to improve education, training and work conditions and
ultimately the health care itself in both donor and host countries.
Migration among medical professionals can take place through-
out the career: before, during or after training. Exploring attitudes
towards migration among junior doctors can help to understand
the factors that shape the decision-making processes related to
migration in future specialists.
These findings provide objective data that can assist policy mak-
ers, providing instruments to address the critical conditions
leading to migration from at-risk countries, adjusting the pull
factors and improving the standards of education, work and
salaries.
Future studies should explore whether the presented results dif-
fer for junior doctors in other medical disciplines, as well as
physicians in general and psychiatric consultants in Europe and
in other areas of the world. Furthermore, the follow up of the
respondents from this study could assess to what extent the
migratory tendency and intention predicts the future migration
itself.
Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his declaration
of competing interest.