Coronavirus outbreak from early career psychiatrists' viewpoint: What we have learned so far

Renato de Filippis; Joan Soler-Vidal; Victor Pereira-Sanchez; Margaret Isioma Ojeahere; Kana Morimoto; Alice Chang; Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira; Alex Vicente Spadini

doi:10.1111/ppc.12870

Coronavirus outbreak from early career psychiatrists' viewpoint: What we have learned so far

Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2022 Jan;58(1):159-163. doi: 10.1111/ppc.12870. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

Authors

Renato de Filippis¹, Joan Soler-Vidal^{2

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4}, Victor Pereira-Sanchez⁵, Margaret Isioma Ojeahere⁶, Kana Morimoto⁷, Alice Chang⁸, Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira⁹, Alex Vicente Spadini¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Psychiatric Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
² Research unit, FIDMAG Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Hospital Benito Menni CASM, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
⁵ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, General Psychiatry Trainee, Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
⁸ Section of Early Career Psychiatrist, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁰ Education and Research Department, São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Abstract

Purpose: Since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic several million cases and more than three million deaths have been already confirmed worldwide due to COVID-19.

Design and methods: Early Career Psychiatrists from all over the world present an overview of what happened in their own countries and what they have learned so far by this experience in everyday clinical practice.

Practice implication: We tried to take a real time picture of this unexpected situation, drawing useful hints for now and the future.

Keywords: COVID-19; early career psychiatrists (ECPs); global health; mental health; perspective.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Pandemics
Psychiatry*