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. 2022 Nov 7;10:936177. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.936177

Table 3.

Delivery of psychiatry teaching.

Portugal 1 Portugal 2 Portugal 3 Portugal 4 Portugal 5 Brazil Mozambique 1 Mozambique 2
Syllabus of the Psychiatry and Mental Health discipline Major Psychopathological Syndromes Main Psychiatric nosography (Includes adults and child psychiatry): Clinical history and psychopathology + main nosologies + therapeutic approach Psychopathology, clinical psychiatry and therapeutic methods Psychiatric syndromes, clinical history, therapeutics in psychiatry Psychological development throughout the life cycle, main psychiatric pathologies Psychiatric nosography, clinical history, therapeutics in psychiatry Major psychiatric syndromes.
Reference Classification of Mental Illness used CID 10 CID10 and DSM V CID 10 DSM V CID 11 and DSM V CID10 and DSM V CID 10 CID 10
Specific topics of ethics and deontology in Psychiatry and Mental Health addressed Ethics and Mental Illness, treatment and doctor-patient relationship Patient autonomy, confidentiality, doctor-patient relationship, compulsive treatment Consent, Mental Health Law, Compulsory internment, medical professionalism Ethics in care, bioethics and ethics in research. No specific topics Ethics in psychiatry No specific topics No specific topics
Sociocultural aspects of the region and/or country with the most impact on the path of the population of your region Employment, family relationships, rurality Religion, family tradition, rural tradition Socio-economic level, Health care system, Level of education Violence, socio - economic and religion Substance dependence (alcoholism, drugs of abuse) Ethnic minorities, cultural minorities, migrants Sorcery implicated in the cause of mental illness, Seek medical assistance after permission from the healer, Daughters-in-law need permission from mother-in-law to seek medical care Mental illness Synonym of spell/evil spirits/punishment, Medical assistance conditioned by the permission of a healer, Contagious disease
Addressing traditional beliefs about mental illness Yes Yes Yes Yes In the 3rd year, in the Medical Psychology module. Yes Yes Yes