Abstract

Introduction

The European Journal of Psychiatric Trainees was founded in 2022 as the official journal of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) to offer a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal with minimal article processing charges. The journal is edited by trainees and early career psychiatrists and published its first issue in July 2023. The journal aims to facilitate publishing experience and opportunities for trainees. To reflect the global identity and inclusivity of psychiatric research, the journal changed its name in 2023 to become the International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees.

Objectives

To present the International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees, the successor of the European Journal of Psychiatric Trainees, and other practical aspects related to the article submission.

Methods

We will reflect on the International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees, focusing on what this name change will imply for the journal’s scope, mission and readership.

Results

Due to training programmes’ requirements or out of interest, psychiatric trainees are encouraged to conduct scientific research. However, several known barriers to scientific publishing exist, ranging from a lack of mentorship and supervision to limited scientific support. Like the European Journal of Psychiatric Trainees, the International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees continues to be an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal with minimal/no publication fees that publishes original and innovative research as well as clinical, theory, perspective, and policy articles and reviews in the field of psychiatric training, psychiatry, and mental health.

Since the difficulties and needs in creating research output are not exclusive to European trainees, the journal will become more attractive to readers and authors from other countries while increasing the diversity of articles.

The first International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees issue will be dedicated to the 31st EFPT Forum with the theme “Trainee Mental Health”, containing articles reporting on the projects from National Psychiatric Trainee Associations looking into trainee mental health. Submissions for the regular edition remain open, and articles should be submitted through the manuscript submission platform (https://ijpt.scholasticahq.com)

Conclusions

The International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees aims to be an educative scientific journal for psychiatric trainees and other psychiatry and mental health researchers. The name change and its increased openness will help the authors reach a wider readership while the journal can feature a more comprehensive record of psychiatric research through its global scope.

Disclosure of Interest

None Declared

Details

Title
Reaching Out from Europe to the Globe: The International Journal of Psychiatric Trainees
Author
F Santos Martins 1 ; Cavaleri, D 2 ; Zani, D 3 ; Tomašić, L 4 ; Kibitov, A 5 ; King, J 6 ; Markin, K 7 ; Sprengens, J 8 ; Ryland, H 9 ; Stirland, L 10 ; Seker, A 11 

 Department of Psychiatry, Centro Hospitalar Universitário S. João (CHUSJ); CINTESIS; Neurosciences and Mental Health Department, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), Porto, Portugal 
 Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy 
 Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services Grisons, Chur, Switzerland 
 University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia 
 -, -, Russian Federation 
 Psychiatry Division, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 
 Kirov Military Medical Academy, -, Russian Federation 
 UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 
 Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford 
10  University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 
11  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom 
Pages
S177-S177
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Aug 2024
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISSN
09249338
e-ISSN
17783585
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3097380244
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Psychiatric Association. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.