From the Editor

The psychiatry workforce pool is shrinking. What are we doing about it?

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The appeal of working with mind and brain

The extent to which we can convey unfettered optimism about the role of psychiatry in medicine and the relentless progress in neurobiological research, together, will go a long way toward attracting the best and brightest newly minted physicians to our specialty. The brain is the last frontier in medicine; psychiatry is intimately tethered to its unfolding complexity. With millennials placing a higher premium on work–life issues, the enviable balance and quality of life of a psychiatric career might now be particularly opportune, enhancing the quantity and quality of professionals that we can attract to psychiatry.

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