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Recruitment to Psychiatry in Canada: a COUPE Perspective

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The authors would like to thank the members of the Canadian Organization of Undergraduate Psychiatric Educators (COUPE) for their collaboration on this project and the data acquisition.

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Elliott Kyung Lee, Alan Bruce Douglass & Kathleen Pajer

  2. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Alexandra Morra, Nishardi Waidyaratne-Wijeratne & Debra Michelle Hamer

  3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Tharshika Thangarasa & Raed Jad Hawa

  4. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Natasja M. Menezes

  5. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Ronald Oswald

  6. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Kathryn Fung

  7. Université Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

    Karine Forget

  8. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Cheryl Murphy

  9. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Alanna Baillod

  10. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Rajat Jayas

  11. Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

    Nadine Gagnon

  12. Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Sreelatha Varapravan

  13. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Nancy Brager

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Dr. Fung reports personal fees from Allergan, Bristol Myers Squibb, Janssen Ortho, Lundbeck, and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, outside the submitted work. All other authors have no disclosures to declare.

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Lee, E.K., Douglass, A.B., Morra, A. et al. Recruitment to Psychiatry in Canada: a COUPE Perspective. Acad Psychiatry 44, 116–117 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-019-01139-2

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