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.

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.

The academic day presentations were very interesting and without doubt the EFPT members and other users of this website might be interested in having copies of the presentations available for future reference. Luckily ALL the lecturers have given their approval to the idea to distribute their presentations to the Forum participants via the EFPT web site. The lectures available are as follows:

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) is an independent Federation of psychiatric trainees' associations. The EFPT is officially recognised by the European Board of Psychiatry and the European Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Federation serves psychiatric trainees in all branches of psychiatry all over Europe. The EFPT is the first (perhaps only) international organisation of specialist trainees in any branch of medicine.