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The aims of the postgraduate programme "Liaison Psychiatry: Integrative Care of Physical and Mental Health" include the education and research in the broad field of Liaison Psychiatry, the exercise of which mainly concerns the operation of the Psychiatric Units of General Hospitals, as well as other levels health care.
In particular, the practice of Liaison Psychiatry concerns the provision of integrative psychiatric care to people with coexisting mental and physical illness, to mentally ill patients with predominant physical manifestations, to the prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary) of the psychological reaction to the physical illness, to the improvement of quality of life of patients with mental and physical illness and to the awareness improvement and training of health personnel in the detection of mental disorders.
Liaison Psychiatry is internationally one of the most recognized specializations of Psychiatry in many countries (USA, United Kingdom, Finland, etc.).
The purpose of the Programme is the training of postgraduate students in the broad and growing field of providing comprehensive care for physical and mental health, both psychiatrists and doctors of other specialties as well as professionals in fields related to psychiatry and the other medical specialties, who will participate in it, combining high-level academic and research abilities with valuable practical experience. A high priority of the Programme is the promotion of research in the field.
It also aims, upon completion of the Programem, for the students to have acquired a high level of knowledge, attitudes and skills of their subject, so that they can work in psychiatric Units of General Hospitals, Primary Health Care Units, Social Medicine Units as well as various state and non-governmental organizations, and structures related to the integrative care of physical and mental health.