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1President, American Psychiatric Association, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 1300 Moursund Street, Houston, Texas 77030, USA, email pedro.ruiz@uth.tmc.edu.
Abstract:
Currently, national associations and societies in psychiatry are facing major problems and dilemmas concerning most of their core values and objectives. Example include (Griffith & Ruiz, 1977; Matorin & Ruiz, 1999): addressing ethical issues pertaining to their relationship with pharmaceutical industriesupgrading of the educational and training models used with medical students, graduate residents in psychiatry and postgraduate trainees in the psychiatric sub-specialties (child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, etc.)finding a good balance with respect to research and investigation in the areas of biological psychiatry, neurosciences, psychosocial and cultural psychiatry.
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