Teaching psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in Somalia

Lauren Gavaghan; Peter Hughes; Khalid Saeed; Susannah Whitwell

Teaching psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in Somalia

Int Psychiatry. 2014 Feb 1;11(1):15-17. eCollection 2014 Feb.

Authors

Lauren Gavaghan¹, Peter Hughes², Khalid Saeed³, Susannah Whitwell⁴

Affiliations

¹ Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry, Co-Lead of the King's-THET Somaliland Partnership Mental Health Group, South London and Maudsley Trust, London, UK, email laureninsomaliland@gmail.com.
² Consultant Psychiatrist, Springfield University Hospital, London, UK.
³ Regional Advisor, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
⁴ Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Lead, King's THET Somaliland Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, UK.

PMID: 31507753
PMCID: PMC6735162

Abstract

This paper describes a pilot project in which (for the first time, worldwide) psychiatry was taught to undergraduate medical students in Somalia using an evidence-based intervention - the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide.