Volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda: challenges and rewards

Fiona Martin is a psychiatry trainee who spent 6 months volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda between her core and higher psychiatry training. In this article, she reflects upon this experience, including the challenges and rewards, and in particular the benefits to training of such an e...

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Autor principal: Martin, Fiona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
Materias:
Psychiatry under Restrictive Conditions
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32167096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2019.6
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spelling pubmed-70543302020-03-12 Volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda: challenges and rewards Martin, Fiona BJPsych Int Psychiatry under Restrictive Conditions Fiona Martin is a psychiatry trainee who spent 6 months volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda between her core and higher psychiatry training. In this article, she reflects upon this experience, including the challenges and rewards, and in particular the benefits to training of such an experience. Cambridge University Press 2019-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7054330/ /pubmed/32167096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2019.6 Text en © The Author 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054330/
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