Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training in Europe: The Trainee Perspective Based on the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees Experience La formation en psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent en Europe: le point de vue des internes et l’expérience de la Fédération européenne des internes en psychiatrie.

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) was founded in 1992 as an independent, non-profit, umbrella organization for European National Psychiatric Trainees’ associations. It has several activities in advocacy, improving psychiatry training and professional networking most of which it operates through its Working Groups, including the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Working Group. Through its CAP Working Group and the wider network of CAP trainees across Europe, the EFPT has gained extensive insight on different CAP training systems in Europe and works on different projects to identify various issues in European CAP training including off-label medication use, CAP rotation circumstances for adult psychiatry trainees and psychotherapy training in CAP. The CAP Working Group keeps the trainee network alive and growing while collaborating with other professional psychiatric international organizations including EPA, UEMS-CAP, ESCAP, IACAPAP and WPA to help improve the visibility and training circumstances of CAP in Europe. In this article, we will outline the overall work and function of the EFPT, the position of CAP trainees in the organization, roles EFPT-CAP trainees play to shape the future of the European CAP and the recent EFPT-CAP projects as well as the prospective directions. reviewed acceptedVersion