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Welcome to the Swiss Association of Psychiatric Trainees

The association SVPA-ASMAP-ASAP

  • assists the next generation in psychiatry

  • is committed to improving the working and training conditions of physicians in continuing education to the title of psychiatry and psychotherapy

  • promotes national and international exchanges between physicians in continuing education as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

  • promotes research in the field of psychiatry in areas relevant to physicians in continuing education as specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

  • networks with other organizations in mental health care

  • is committed to improving the treatment of psychiatric patients

  • plays an important role in forming opinions on the improvement of the working conditions of doctors in postgraduate training in psychiatry and psychotherapy and represents this opinion within the Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGPP) and other institutions

The SVPA-ASMAP-ASAP-SAPT

  • is actively advocates the interests of the trainees on workpolitical basis
  • organizes events for their members
  • creates a platform for networking for their members
  • answers questions concerning trainee-relevant themes
  • informs their members about interesting events

The SVPA-ASMAP-ASAP-SAPT

  • maintains relationships to psychiatric trainee organizations in other countries (esp. Germany and France)
  • sends Swiss Delegates to the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT)
  • answers international questions regarding themes that lie in the active area of the association

Collaboration Is Vital

Join Us And Be Part of Our Journey

The SVPA-ASMAP-ASAP is the Swiss Association of Psychiatric Trainees (SAPT) and was founded in September 2009. Aims of the association are to improve psychiatric training in Switzerland, to create personal and professional networks and to represent trainee positions in relevant other organizations (such as the Swiss association of psychiatry and psychotherapy SGPP/SSPP).Members of the ALPPF and the VAPZ are automatically members of the SVPA-ASMPA-ASAP.

If you would like to become a member, please complete the application form below. Membership is open to Swiss trainee doctors in psychiatry and psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as specialists in these fields up to two years after obtaining the specialist title.

meet our board

The Faces Behind our Vision

Filippo Toni

President

Violette Corre

Secretary General

Davide Zani

Vice-President and IT-Manager

Valentina Basile

Communication Manager

Catalin Georgian Ivanov

Vice-President

Lavinia Duda

Treasurer

Our Network​

We work together for the psychiatrists of tomorrow

SVPA-ASMAP-ASAP is part of a network of associations in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy of both adults and children and adolescents. Particularly on the Swiss level we collaborate closely with other associations of trainees such as ALPPF, VAPZ, ARGE and the associations of specialists such as SGPP and SGKJPP. On a European level we are active in cooperation with the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees EFPT and support our members’ interest in international working groups, such as those of the EPA. In the picture you can see how our network looks like.

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