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Review
. 2023 Aug;20(3):71-73.
doi: 10.1192/bji.2023.11.

The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran: a unique academic and personal experience

Cyrine Ben Said  1 , Hela Ben Abid  2 , Mohammadreza Shalbafan  3 , Mariana Pinto da Costa  4
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The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran: a unique academic and personal experience

Cyrine Ben Said et al. BJPsych Int. 2023 Aug.

Abstract

The World Psychiatry Exchange Program in Iran is an academic experience we are delighted to share. As two participating early career psychiatrists, a local psychiatry faculty member manager, and the lead founder and international coordinator of the programme, we focus in this article on the unfolding of this new learning experience, the difficulties we encountered and the main lessons learned by the participants: commonalities and differences in training and practice in general adult psychiatry and child psychiatry in Tunisia and Iran, as well as in idioms of distress between the Arab and Persian cultures.

Keywords: Education; exchange; low- and middle-income countries; training; transcultural psychiatry.

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