• Australas Psychiatry · Dec 2017

    Salt in the soul, steel in the eye and caution towards the winds: a mariner's guide for navigating a new academic psychiatry department.

    • Jeffrey Cl Looi, Daniel Bonner, Paul Maguire, Raj Parige, Michael Tedeschi, Jeffrey C Cubis, Bjorn Cartledge, Philip Keightley, Rebecca E Reay, and Peggy Craigie.
    • Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Psychiatry of Old Age & Neuropsychiatry, & Acting Discipline Lead & Head, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, & Senior Staff Specialist, ACT Health, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
    • Australas Psychiatry. 2017 Dec 1; 25 (6): 588-595.

    ObjectivesThis paper describes principles and advice regarding the development of a new academic psychiatry department within a medical school for aspiring academic psychiatrists. We describe general principles based on the experience of the foundation of the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School.ConclusionsPerspicacious leadership and organisation are the foundation for an academic psychiatry department which delivers teaching, research and broader intellectual engagement with the medical and broader community.

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