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Teaching psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in Somalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Lauren Gavaghan ,
Peter Hughes ,
Khalid Saeed  and
Susannah Whitwell
Lauren Gavaghan
Affiliation:
South London and Maudsley Trust, London, UK, email laureninsomaliland@gmail.com
Peter Hughes
Affiliation:
Springfield University Hospital, London, UK
Khalid Saeed
Affiliation:
Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt
Susannah Whitwell
Affiliation:
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Lead, King's THET Somaliland Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, UK
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Abstract

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This paper describes a pilot project in which (for the first time, worldwide) psychiatry was taught to undergraduate medical students in Somalia using an evidence-based intervention – the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 15 - 17
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014

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