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To which countries do European psychiatric trainees want to move to and why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Pinto da Costa ,
A. Giurgiuca ,
K. Holmes ,
E. Biskup ,
T. Mogren ,
S. Tomori ,
O. Kilic ,
V. Banjac ,
R. Molina-Ruiz  and
C. Palumbo
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M. Pinto da Costa*
Affiliation:
Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry (WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development), Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
A. Giurgiuca
Affiliation:
The Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
K. Holmes
Affiliation:
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
E. Biskup
Affiliation:
University Hospital of Basel, Department of Internal Medicine, Basel, Switzerland Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences Basic Medical College, Shanghai, China
T. Mogren
Affiliation:
Allmänspykiatriska kliniken Falun/Säter, Säter, Sweden
S. Tomori
Affiliation:
University Hospital Center Mother Teresa, Department of Pediatrics, Tirana, Albania
O. Kilic
Affiliation:
Koc University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey
V. Banjac
Affiliation:
Clinic of psychiatry, University Clinical Center of the Republic of Srpska, Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
R. Molina-Ruiz
Affiliation:
CSM de Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Psychiatry Department, Madrid, Spain
C. Palumbo
Affiliation:
Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII-Bergamo (BG), Department of Psychiatry, Bergamo, Italy
D. Frydecka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
J. Kaaja
Affiliation:
Universiy of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
E. El-Higaya
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
A. Kanellopoulos
Affiliation:
Mental Health Care Unit, Evgenidion Therapeftirion, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
B.H. Amit
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University, Department of psychiatry, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tiqwa, Israel
D. Madissoon
Affiliation:
South-Estonian Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, Võru, Estonia
E. Andreou
Affiliation:
Athalassa Mental Health Hospital, Mental Health Services, Nicosia, Cyprus
I. Uleviciute-Belena
Affiliation:
Clinical hospital of Vilnius, Office of primary mental health care, Vilnius, Lithuania
I. Rakos
Affiliation:
University Hospital Dubrava, Department of Psychiatry, Referral Center for the Stress-Related Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia
J. Dragasek
Affiliation:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Faculty of Medicine, 1st Department of Psychiatry, Košice, Slovakia
K. Feffer
Affiliation:
Shalvata mental health center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel
M. Farrugia
Affiliation:
Mount Carmel Hospital, Triq l-Imdina, Malta
M. Mitkovic-Voncina
Affiliation:
Belgrade University School of Medicine, Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade, Serbia
T. Gargot
Affiliation:
Service de psychiatrie de l‘enfant et de l‘adolescent, hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France Equipe interaction, institut des systèmes intelligents et de la robotique, Paris, France
F. Baessler
Affiliation:
Centre for psychosocial medicine and department of general internal medicine and psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Pantovic-Stefanovic
Affiliation:
Department for Affective Disorders, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
L. De Picker
Affiliation:
Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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*Corresponding author. Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Rua Professor Álvaro Rodrigues, 4149-003 Porto, Portugal. E-mail address:mariana.pintodacosta@gmail.com (M. Pinto da Costa).
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Abstract

Background:

There is a shortage of psychiatrists worldwide. Within Europe, psychiatric trainees can move between countries, which increases the problem in some countries and alleviates it in others. However, little is known about the reasons psychiatric trainees move to another country.

Methods:

Survey of psychiatric trainees in 33 European countries, exploring how frequently psychiatric trainees have migrated or want to migrate, their reasons to stay and leave the country, and the countries where they come from and where they move to. A 61-item self-report questionnaire was developed, covering questions about their demographics, experiences of short-term mobility (from 3 months up to 1 year), experiences of long-term migration (of more than 1 year) and their attitudes towards migration.

Results:

A total of 2281 psychiatric trainees in Europe participated in the survey, of which 72.0% have ‘ever’ considered to move to a different country in their future, 53.5% were considering it ‘now’, at the time of the survey, and 13.3% had already moved country. For these immigrant trainees, academic was the main reason they gave to move from their country of origin. For all trainees, the overall main reason for which they would leave was financial (34.4%), especially in those with lower (<500€) incomes (58.1%), whereas in those with higher (>2500€) incomes, personal reasons were paramount (44.5%).

Conclusions:

A high number of psychiatric trainees considered moving to another country, and their motivation largely reflects the substantial salary differences. These findings suggest tackling financial conditions and academic opportunities.

Keywords

Psychiatric traineesEFPTTrainingWorkforceMigrationBrain drain

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European Psychiatry , Volume 45 , September 2017 , pp. 174 - 181
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

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