The metamorphosis: On being caterpillars and butterflies
Author(s)
Suetani, Shuichi
Kim, Hannah
Forbes, Malcolm
Nguyen, David
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2020
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A recent Debate article by Agalawatta et al. (2020) outlines several important issues faced by those completing the fellowship training in the public sector. As early career psychiatrists who have recently metamorphosised from caterpillars to butterflies, we also faced many of the challenges described in the Debate. We dealt with the challenges in different ways and places (i.e. collectively, we have worked in the private sector and public system as well as temporary locum positions). The Debate article (Agalawatta et al., 2020) made us reflect on why it’s hard to be a butterfly, and we collate our reflections here in the ...
View more >A recent Debate article by Agalawatta et al. (2020) outlines several important issues faced by those completing the fellowship training in the public sector. As early career psychiatrists who have recently metamorphosised from caterpillars to butterflies, we also faced many of the challenges described in the Debate. We dealt with the challenges in different ways and places (i.e. collectively, we have worked in the private sector and public system as well as temporary locum positions). The Debate article (Agalawatta et al., 2020) made us reflect on why it’s hard to be a butterfly, and we collate our reflections here in the context of moral injury.
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View more >A recent Debate article by Agalawatta et al. (2020) outlines several important issues faced by those completing the fellowship training in the public sector. As early career psychiatrists who have recently metamorphosised from caterpillars to butterflies, we also faced many of the challenges described in the Debate. We dealt with the challenges in different ways and places (i.e. collectively, we have worked in the private sector and public system as well as temporary locum positions). The Debate article (Agalawatta et al., 2020) made us reflect on why it’s hard to be a butterfly, and we collate our reflections here in the context of moral injury.
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Journal Title
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Note
This publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
Subject
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Psychology