I chose to become a psychiatrist

Why have psychiatrists chosen to practice this specialty?

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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In France, public health establishments specializing in psychiatry are forced to close for lack of psychiatrists.

This shortage of specialists is explained in particular by the difficulty of recruiting in this field which no longer appeals to students.

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What consequences could result from this?

Why choose to study psychiatry?

• Pr Florence Thibault

  , Professor of psychiatry and addictology at

  the University of Paris

  and hospital practitioner in the psychiatry department of

  the Cochin Hospital of Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP)

  .

  President of

  the International Association for Mental Health of Women

  (

  International Association for women's mental health, IAWMH

  ).

  Researcher at the Psychiatry and Neuroscience Center of

  the National Institute of Health and Medical Research

  (Inserm U894).

• Dr Eric Salomé

  , child psychiatrist from

  the Public Institution for Mental Health (EPSM) of Flanders

  , in Bailleul, transferred to the EPSM in Armentières, in the North.

• Dr Estelle Ngamy

  , young Cameroonian psychiatrist trained in Burkina Faso, currently in an addiction training course in France.

At the end of the program, we find the sports column of

, sports doctor.

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