Book description
Aimed at recently qualified psychiatrists or those looking to qualify
soon,
How to Succeed in Psychiatry
is not a source of clinical information but a survival guide to help
you through the first years practising psychiatry. This book covers the
topics you won't find in standard textbooks. It deals with daily
problems and practical solutions for young psychiatrists. Psychiatric
training is less team based than other specialties, so there is less
opportunity for learning from colleagues than one would expect: this
book helps to fill that gap.
The book opens with an overview of
psychiatry training, describing the similarities and differences among
various countries. Subsequent chapters address the opportunities for
research and how to publish the results. Psychotherapy and community
psychiatry each merit their own chapter on training.
Next, the book guides you through the transition phase into a job,
discussing opportunities in both the public and private sectors and
considering how to choose the best career for you. It reviews
important general considerations, such as ethics, professionalism,
leadership and management, how to avoid stress and burn out, and how
to liaise with other specialties. The book closes with an account of
the role of psychiatry associations and continuing professional development.
Written by early career psychiatrists from around the world, this
book provides invaluable first-hand experience to all those wishing to
embark on a career in this exciting discipline.
- Practical tips for young psychiatrists starting their careers on
the wards or in private practice
- Advice on the transition phase at the end of training, career
choice and job opportunities
Dr. Andrea Fiorillo
obtained his MD at the University of Naples with honours in 1997. He
undertook his post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Department of
Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN and obtained his PhD in Behavioural
Sciences in 2004. He is now Aggregate Professor of Psychiatry at the
Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, teaching Social
Statistics, Social Psychiatry, Psychopathology of impulse control
disorders, Psychiatry and Research Methodology in Psychiatry. Dr
Fiorillo has been a visiting psychiatrist at the University of
Birmingham, UK, the University of Maryland, School of Medicine,
Baltimore, USA, and Queen Mary University College of London, UK. He has
participated in several national and international multicentric studies
on social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. He served as
President of the Italian Association for Training in Psychiatry
(Conferenza Italiana per la Formazione in Psichiatria - CFP) from 2000
to 2007; President of the Italian Association of Young Psychiatrists
from 2007 to 2010; and as a member of the Executive Committee of the
European Psychiatric Association - Early Career Psychiatrists' Committee
from 2005 to 2007. He was also co-Chair of the Executive Committee of
the European Psychiatric Association - Early Career Psychiatrists'
Committee from 2007 to 2010. Dr Fiorillo is currently Chair of the
Executive Committee of the European Psychiatric Association - Early
Career Psychiatrists' Committee and a member of the Executive Committee
of the Early Career Psychiatrists Council of the World Psychiatric
Association, as well as Area Coordinator for Europe I. He is the author
and co-author of more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed national and
international journals on social psychiatry and psychiatric
epidemiology, and of several book chapters on the same topic. He is
editor or co-editor of six volumes in the psychiatric field.
Dr Iris Calliess started her training in psychiatry in
Switzerland and continued at the Freud-Institute in Frankfurt, Germany
and in Berlin. Since 2001 she has been affiliated with the Medical
School of Hannover, Germany, where her training in psychiatry was
completed, accompanied by an academic specialization in the field of
transcultural psychiatry and psychotherapy. She was Founding Member
and Chair of the Young Psychiatrists Committees in the German
Psychiatric Association (2003-2009) and within the European
Psychiatric Association (2005-2011). She is currently head of the
research group for transcultural psychiatry and psychotherapy and of a
specialized outpatient consultation service for migrants with mental
disorders at Hannover Medical School. In addition she is affiliated as
a researcher with the Institute for Standardized and Applied Hospital
Management at Hannover Medical School.
Professor Henning Sass is currently Medical director and
chairman of the Board of the University Hospital of the University of
Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany. He trained at the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. He then held the Chair of
Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Munich and of General
Psychiatry at the University of Technology in Aachen. As a professor
of psychiatry he was head of the German Society for Psychiatry (DGPPN)
in 1999/2000 and of the "European Association of
Psychiatrists" (EPA) in 2005/2006. He is editor or co-editor of
various scientific journals, e. g. "Der Nervenarzt", "J
Behav. Sciences and the Law" and "ZPPK". He serves on
the Board of the "Association of Medical faculties in
Germany" (MFT) and is also Consultant of the German Ministry for
Science, Education and Technology in Berlin (Gesundheitsforschungsrat
des BMBF). His research includes psychopathology, personality
disorders and forensic psychiatry.
