Child Psychiatry Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education.

The article presents a study which aims to describe the content and time allocated to undergraduate medical education curricula in child and adolescent psychiatry. The results show a limited agreement about curricula content for undergraduate child and adolescent psychiatry teaching programs in medical schools. In many countries, the number of child and adolescent psychiatrists with academic appointments is limited, and child and adolescent psychiatry programs are developed and taught by a small number of teaching staff at each medical school. It suggests the need for medical schools to reconsider the relatively low priority given to teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to medical students.