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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Neurostimulation
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1450351
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Education in Neurostimulation: Nurturing Competent and Collaborative Clinicians and Researchers View all 4 articles

Shaping Tomorrow: How the STEP Training Course Pioneered Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Training for Psychiatry in France

Provisionally accepted
Marine Mondino Marine Mondino 1Cécilia Neige Cécilia Neige 1Jean M. Batail Jean M. Batail 2Noomane Bouaziz Noomane Bouaziz 3Maxime Bubrovszky Maxime Bubrovszky 4Samuel Bulteau Samuel Bulteau 5Anastasia Demina Anastasia Demina 6Ludovic Dormegny-Jeanjean Ludovic Dormegny-Jeanjean 7Ghina Harika-Germaneau Ghina Harika-Germaneau 8Dominique Januel Dominique Januel 3Charles Laidi Charles Laidi 9Virginie Moulier Virginie Moulier 10Marion Plaze Marion Plaze 11Arnaud Pouchon Arnaud Pouchon 12Emmanuel Poulet Emmanuel Poulet 1Maud Rotharmel Maud Rotharmel 10Anne Sauvaget Anne Sauvaget 13Antoine Yrondi Antoine Yrondi 14David Szekely David Szekely 15Jerome Brunelin Jerome Brunelin 1*
  • 1 CH le Vinatier, Lyon 1 university, INSERM U1028 Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Bron, France
  • 2 University of Rennes, Rennes, France
  • 3 Unité de recherche clinique (URC), EPS Ville Evrard, Neuilly-sur-Marne, France
  • 4 Centrale Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Hauts-de-France, France
  • 5 Université de Nantes, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
  • 6 Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Dijon, Dijon, Burgundy, France
  • 7 Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
  • 8 Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit, Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France
  • 9 Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, Ile-de-France, France
  • 10 Université de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, Upper Normandy, France
  • 11 Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, Paris, France
  • 12 Université Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Hères, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
  • 13 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
  • 14 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, Occitanie, France
  • 15 Princess Grace Hospital Centre, Monaco, Monaco

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    Over the past three decades, non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques have gained worldwide attention and demonstrated therapeutic potential in various medical fields, particularly psychiatry. The emergence of these novel techniques has led to an increased need for robust training programs to provide practitioners, whether clinicians or scientists, with the necessary skills and knowledge. In response, a comprehensive training curriculum for NIBS in psychiatry has been developed in France. This curriculum was developed by a group of researchers and psychiatrists interested in the clinical application of NIBS in psychiatry, called STEP -Stimulation Transcranienne en Psychiatrie, under the auspices of the French Association of Biological Psychiatry. This perspective outlines the development and implementation of this course, tracing its inception, the evolution of the program, and the challenges encountered along the way. The position of the course in the national and international environment and its future prospects are also discussed. Through this perspective, we aim to summarize the collaborative efforts to promote NIBS teaching and research in French psychiatry.

    Keywords: rTMS (repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), transcranial electric stimulation, psychiastric disorders, Training course content, Education - active learning

    Received: 17 Jun 2024; Accepted: 28 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Mondino, Neige, Batail, Bouaziz, Bubrovszky, Bulteau, Demina, Dormegny-Jeanjean, Harika-Germaneau, Januel, Laidi, Moulier, Plaze, Pouchon, Poulet, Rotharmel, Sauvaget, Yrondi, Szekely and Brunelin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jerome Brunelin, CH le Vinatier, Lyon 1 university, INSERM U1028 Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Bron, 69677, France

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