The 18th EFPT Forum will be held in Dubrovnik from June 2nd to 5th 2010. For registration and more info, please click here

 

Brussels and we have now officially become a NGO, pending the
blessings of the Belgian King!

about when our previous treasurer Tommi Väyrynen (Finland) looked into
options of obtaining EU funding and realized that to obtain this EFPT
will have to register as an official organization. This idea and
objective was strongly supported  by Julian Beezhold (Past President,
UK)  and Roberts Klotins (past-President, Latvia), who laid the
foundation for the registration process. The constitution working
group, especially Estelle Brenon (France), Sameer Jauhar (UK), Eva
Weiss (Austria) and Marie Bendix (Sweden) did a fantastic job in
building up the initial document and keeping us honest throughout the
process. Many colleagues in the French delegation, including Stephanie
and Laetitia must be thanked for guiding us through the many nuances
of the French language and the Belgian French culture of the notary.
Guillaume Favre (Switzerland) picked up this mantle in the final
stages and supported us with his skillful command over the French
language-especially during the signing in Brussels.   Two of my
predecessors,  Andreas Zachariadis (Past, President, Greece) and Kajsa
Norstrom (Past-President, Sweden) and their boards did a great job in
driving this forward.
 Finally, I would like to thank our immediate Past President, Amit
Malik (UK) who, along with his colleague,  Joanna Carroll from The
Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK has been the driving force behind
this hugely bureaucratic task and has gently (and sometimes, not so
gently!) guided all of us towards this final destination. He signed
the constitution on all our behalves in Brussels last Friday (picture
attached) and we are very grateful for his leadership through this
process.

educational and mental health care policies in Europe.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Dubrovnik, our first
extraordinary assembly,

Best regards,
Martina Rojnic Kuzman, M.D., Ph.D.

President of the EFPT

2009 Country Reports are available in the website. If your country report is not listed, please contact the IT secretary.

The board has now been working with the statues, e.g. “Articles of Association” according to Belgium law. The procedure has taken longer time than we expected due to the process has been quit complicated and we wanted as accurate draft as possible.

The Young Psychiatrists program at the 16th European Congress of Psychiatry, (April 2008 Nice, France)
provides a unique opportunity for recent graduates to enjoy networking events and attend sessions designed specifically for their position.

This year’s Young Psychiatrist’s program is entitled “Visions in European Psychiatry for Young Psychiatrists and Trainees”.

http://www.kenes.com/aep/young.asp

 

The EFPT wants a fully funded Exchange program. Psychiatric trainees should be given the opportunity to participate in trainee programs outside their country, within other European countries if they desire to do so. It must be accredited towards final qualification to the specialists' status in their country of origin. We recognize the complexities of making such arrangements, which may include barriers of language, differing practices of psychiatry and of fulfilling criteria for specialist training. Despite these or other obstacles, such training experiences should be encouraged and made feasible. These training agreements will improve the quality of the practice of psychiatry in Europe whilst recognizing the cultural diversity of this practice.

Are you a psychiatrist or a psychiatry resident?

Do you suspect you are taking psychiatry too seriously?

Here are some alert signs, so be warned

Just in case you've had a rough day, here's a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological texts. The funny thing is that it really works.

1. Picture yourself near a stream.
2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
3. No one but you knows your secret place.
4. You are in total seclusion from the rest of the world.
5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
6. The water is crystal clear.
7. You can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater.
8. See, you're smiling already!

The EFPT website provides you with a master calendar, on which you can upload events to be seen by every other user. (E.g. European Psychiatry association congress etc)

It also provides a personal calendar, into which you can optionally add master calendar's events.

The Master Calendar is NOT meant to store your personal events such as birthdays and anniversaries.

by U. Volpe (Naples, Italy) and R. Klotins (Riga, Latvia)

EFPT Website Workgroup Report
This workgroup, first explored the newly released EFPT website (www.efpt.eu). The new html platform allows a higher level of interactivity and transparency. A debate about the audience we should refer to lead us to state that our target should encompass both EFPT members and people outside EFPT (such as other medical trainees, EU officers, people who just want to have information about the Federation, etc.). In order to have a website which would be both effective and informative, the workgroup decided to have separate sets of pages: those for the general public and those for registered users only.