title: [Psychiatric education and cultural components during medical training: Latin American perspectives].
abstract: Medical education has incorporated psychiatric or mental health components more consistently during the last decades thanks to various factors such as: advances in neurobiological research; the increasing prevalence of mental disorders in global health; the increasingly close relationship between mental health and public health; comorbidities with medical conditions and the impact of sociocultural phenomena in clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention. Based on acquisition of core competencies and ethical principles of universal acceptance, the teaching process examined in this article proposes an education based on the provision of clinical experiences integrated throughout the collection of adequate information, the development of diagnostic capabilities, and exposure to a wide variety of forms of academic assessment of students and residents in training. The cultural components of psychiatric education receive special mention; we provide examples of their systematic integration with the acquisition of general skills. The teaching tools include theoretical and applied activities and supervision. Particular attention is paid to how the principles of modern psychiatric medical education, including cultural aspects and practice of holistic health care objectives, can and should be in effect in Latin American countries.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Psiquiatría, Departamento de Ciencias Médicas y Cátedra Honorio Delgado, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
authors.forename: Renato D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Alarcón
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suarez-Richards
authors.affiliation: Sección de Psiquiatría, Departamento de Ciencias Médicas y Cátedra Honorio Delgado, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
authors.forename: Silvana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sarabia
mesh_terms: D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D004501:Education, Medical; D007843:Latin America; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*