Japan Young Psychiatrists Organization (JYPO) welcomes participants from overseas to the Course for Academic Development of Psychiatrists (CADP)

10th Anniversary of the training course for Japanese early career psychiatrists: Course for the Academic Development of Psychiatrists (CADP)

“…After each course, JYPO publishes a comprehensive report of the proceedings and sends it to all of the university psychiatry departments in Japan along with an invitation letter to the next CADP. Since the seventh course, CADP has also begun invited young psychiatrists from other countries to attend (Matsumoto et al , 2010). The total number of participants in CADP has now reached more than 120.…”

“…The series of Courses for the Academic Development of Psychiatrists (CADP) in Japan was planned and initiated in 2002 by Professor Norman Sartorius, a former World Psychiatric Association (WPA) president, in collaboration with Professor Mitsumoto Sato, the then President of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN). The first CADP was held on 20–23 February 2002, in Kobe, Japan (Uehara et al , 2009; Matsumoto et al , 2010). In addition to the two renowned experts mentioned above, other senior experts attended the course as lecturers, such as Sir David Goldberg from the UK, Professor Masatoshi Takeda, and Professor Naotaka Shinfuku, the WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 17.…”

“…The most important purpose of the CADP was to create a collegial atmosphere that encouraged interaction between participants. The young psychiatrists who attended the first CADP maintained intensive communication after the course and formed the independent Japan Young Psychiatrists Organization (JYPO) in June 2002 (Uehara et al , 2009; Matsumoto et al , 2010). The main aim of JYPO is to bring together young psychiatrists throughout the nation and to give its members the opportunity to interact with each other.…”