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, Presenter of 3 Presentations
What Not To Do to Thrive in your Career?
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What not to do to thrive in your career
The presentation will examine options that are usually available to psychiatrists during their training and early in their career and propose criteria which should be used to select or discard them.
Among the criteria proposed – in addition to personal interest - should be the amount of time that engaging in a particular pursuit might take, the potential gain of the engagement later on in one’s career, the likelihood of expanding the circle of friends and acquaintances and several others.
The First Research in Your Career: How to Use your Resources as Productively as Possible
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The first engagement in research in your career
This presentation will argue that in addition to considering the scientific interest of a topic presented for research it is important to consider other criteria before engaging in a study. These include the place of the study, the team which will be engaged in the work, the ownership of the data which will be produced, the duration of the study and other matters.
The presentation will also discuss the amount of time that should be given to scientific research early in one’s career and the nature of the gain that engagement in research can offer for one’s development and career.
The Complexity of Comorbidity in Patients with Severe Mental Disorders
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Comorbidity of severe mental disorders and physical illness: issues arising
Comorbidity of mental and physical illness is a major, perhaps main problem facing medicine in the years before us. In addition to shortening the life expectancy of people with mental illness comorbidity with physical illness comorbidity significantly and negatively affects the quality of life of the people who experience the mental and physical illnesses and their carers and increases the cost of health care. What makes the problem even more and challenging is that medicine is currently in the process of fragmentation into ever more narrow specialties which adds difficulty in the provision of care,
Most of the solutions which have been proposed – collaborative care, in-service education of general practitioners and others did not turn out to be effective solutions in dealing with the problems of comorbidity. A significant revision of undergraduate and postgraduate training in medicine is most probably an essential component of the answer to the challenge of this type of comorbidity which will also require a reorganization of health services and their financing.