Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
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Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. · Dec 1998
Child psychiatry training for pediatricians: Japanese perspectives in infant psychiatry.
Since August 1993, child psychiatry training by a full-time child psychiatrist has become an essential component of the postgraduate training programme at the Department of Paediatrics, Keio University Hospital, Japan. Thirty trainees, 15 first-years and 15 second-years, had first-hand experience in residential child psychiatric treatment concurrently with pediatric training. ⋯ After the 2 years of training the first group of trainees showed competency in handling children's emotional problems on their own in distant affiliated hospitals. The flexible multidisciplinary style of training that has evolved over the past 2 years has proved to have enormous relevance in the changing contexts of the pediatric practice in Japan.