World Association for Young Psychiatrists and Trainees
.. connecting young psychiatrists and trainees around the World’’
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-
© World Association For Young Psychiatrists and Trainees. 2010
Victor Buwalda, M.D
Foundation President of WAYPT