WPA Thematic Conference: Rethinking Quality in Psychiatry - Education, Research, Prevention, Diagnos 2011

The WPA Thematic Conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9 to 12 June 2011, dealing with quality assurance in psychiatric education, research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

This is certainly an issue which deserves a special attention. Our discipline and profession can rely today on a variety of curricula for education of students and residents, of guidelines and algorithms for diagnosis and treatment, of prevention programmes and of research protocols, but most of them are not frequently implemented in ordinary practice and, even when they are, the fidelity of their application is rarely evaluated, and the problems encountered in their translation to different contexts and cultures are rarely debated.