Rege Sanil
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Gosford Hospital, Northern Sydney Central Coast Mental Health Service, NSW, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;16(4):277-80. doi: 10.1080/10398560801995251.
The aim of this paper is to provide a descriptive account of a 6-month sabbatical in Egypt to highlight the diversity of benefits in incorporating such activities within psychiatric training programs.
An overseas elective offers an exciting practical opportunity to broaden one's experience of transcultural psychiatry and obtain a perspective on mental illness and its cultural variations. It also promotes an understanding of health service management in low and middle income countries and offers the opportunity to contribute to their healthcare at minimal cost. However, the elective needs to be undertaken at an optimal period of a psychiatrist's career and with minimal disruption to local services. Training schemes and employers could provide more opportunities for interested trainees, with specified projects and aims in mind, to undertake such electives so that they can begin to develop expertise in treating a particular cultural group. In turn, this would go a long way to producing culturally capable psychiatrists for the wide range of ethnic minorities in Australia.
本文旨在对在埃及为期6个月的学术休假进行描述，以突出将此类活动纳入精神科培训项目所带来的诸多益处。
海外选修课程提供了一个令人兴奋的实践机会，可拓宽人们跨文化精神病学的经验，并获得对精神疾病及其文化差异的见解。它还促进了对低收入和中等收入国家卫生服务管理的理解，并提供了以最低成本为这些国家的医疗保健做出贡献的机会。然而，选修课程需要在精神科医生职业生涯的最佳时期进行，且对当地服务的干扰要最小。培训计划和雇主可以为感兴趣的学员提供更多机会，在有特定项目和目标的情况下进行此类选修课程，以便他们能够开始培养治疗特定文化群体的专业知识。反过来，这将大大有助于为澳大利亚众多少数民族培养具有文化能力的精神科医生。
