Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on clinical, educational, and research activities of university psychiatry departments were surveyed during the first and the second waves, May and August 2020 respectively, in the Japanese Association of University Psychiatry Department Directors. Responses from 64 (78%) and 38 (46%) universities during the first and second waves out of all the 82 university psychiatry department in Japan demonstrated broad and various influences on clinical practices including conversion of psychiatry wards to COVID-19 wards in 6 universities, profound impact on psychiatry education for under- and postgraduates students, interns, and psychiatry residents, and severe difficulties of intimate communication with students, interns, and department members. Their details were clarified in enormous concrete descriptions.
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