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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

1 ,

, T. Mogren

2

, S. Tomori

3

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

[1,2] a

nd the interactions trainees with

pharmaceutical industry

[3] .

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.

References

[1] Jahuar S, et al. Trend in drug prescription of young psychiatrics

and trainees. Die Psychiatrie 2009;6:80–3.

[2] Jahuar S, et al. Choice of antipsychotic treatment by European

psychiatry trainees: are deciscions based on evidence? BMC Psy-

chiatry 2012;12:27.

[3] Riese F, et al. Pharmaceutical industry interactions of psy-

chiatric trainees from 20 European countries. Eur Psychiatry

2015;2:284–90.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.814

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.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.815