BMJ  2008;336:854-855 (19 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39552.413241.4E

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UK psychiatrists offer help to colleagues in Iraq

Owen Dyer

1 London

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British psychiatrists are stepping in to help fill the gaps in Iraq’s mental health services, through a training programme for Iraqi health professionals led by the Royal College of Psychiatry.

Seven fellows and members of the college will travel this week to Erbil, capital of the Kurdish regional government zone, to take part in a continuing medical education conference that was organised with Iraqi local and national health authorities, the American Psychiatric Association, and the non-profit humanitarian organisation the International Medical Corps.

Riadh Abed, medical director of Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and one of the programme’s organisers, said that the conference aimed to teach the basics of mental health care to doctors and other health professionals who have often had to take on such work with no training. It will be the second such conference.

After a pilot programme in Erbil last year the . . . [Full text of this article]


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