The urge to implement and expand telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 crisis: Early career psychiatrists' perspective

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Education and Research Department, São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
⁵ General Psychiatry Trainee. Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
⁶ Section of Early Career Psychiatrist, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Australia.
⁷ Psychiatric Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro, Italy.
⁸ Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Hospital Benito Menni CASM, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.

Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira et al. Rev Psiquiatr Salud Ment. 2020 Jul-Sep.

. 2020 Jul-Sep;13(3):174-175.

doi: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2020.06.001. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Education and Research Department, São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
⁵ General Psychiatry Trainee. Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
⁶ Section of Early Career Psychiatrist, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Australia.
⁷ Psychiatric Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro, Italy.
⁸ Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Hospital Benito Menni CASM, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.

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