mission statement
The main goals of WAYPT are to exchange ideas, interests, and information amongst colleagues throughout the world, and to organize for young psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees broad educational and training programs ranging from social psychiatry to clinical psychiatry to basic research.
brief history
During the 2000 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, an international organization for psychiatric trainees (tentative name at the time: World Federation for all Psychiatric Trainees, WFPT) was proposed by young psychiatrists (Victor Buwalda, M.D. and Michelle Riba, M.D. ). The main goals of such an association were:
1.to exchange ideas and discuss interests amongst colleagues across the world.
2.to reduce the isolation of colleagues, especially those psychiatric trainees in countries with limited resources and colleagues.
3.to think and act within an international perspective, as the world becomes more
inter-
Discussions on founding this international organization continued at the EFPT Annual Meetings in Berlin (2000) and Napoli (2001), and at the APA Annual Meetings in New Orleans (2001) and Philadelphia (2002). Over the course of these discussions, the importance of including young psychiatrists was recognized and hence the current name World Association for Young Psychiatrists & Trainees (WAYPT).The WAYPT was formerly established at the XII WCP in Yokohama (2002).
founding members
Victor Buwalda (Netherlands), Iris Calliess (Germany), Quirino Cordeiro (Brazil),
Andrea Fiorillo (Italy), Najeeb Khalid (UK/Pakistan), Nitin Gupta (India), Fumiko
Maeda (USA/Japan), Radwa S. Abdelazim (Egypt), Samer Makhoul (Syria), Dominique
Mathis (France), Andrea Mesen-
initiative group and members of the WAYPT
World Association for Young Psychiatrists and Trainees
