title: Psychiatry residency training around the world.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors compare and contrast psychiatry residency training in the United States to that in Canada and selected countries in South America, Europe, and Asia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine individuals who are intimately familiar with psychiatry residency training in the United States (primarily chairs, training directors, associate training directors, or residents) and who trained in other countries describe their past training programs in terms of clinical experiences, didactic structure, supervision, evaluation, and major differences from U.S. training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medical education and psychiatry training vary considerably in different regions in terms of the duration of training, structure of clinical experiences, level of responsibility and autonomy of trainee, amount of classroom teaching, national examinations, and credentialing. Some are much less structured than training in the United States (e.g., Sweden) while others are somewhat more structured (e.g., Korea), but differences appear to be lessening.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although similarities outweigh differences between programs in various continents and countries, training programs around the globe have much to learn from each other.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. szisook@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Sidney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zisook
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balon
authors.forename: Karin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Björkstén
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Everall
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Krauz
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ganadjian
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Sagar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sciolla
authors.forename: Tanuj
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sidhartha
authors.forename: Tai
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoo
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003406:Credentialing; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States