The roots of psychiatry can be traced back to the texts from Ancient India and Greece. However, significant developments in psychiatry occurred from the nineteenth century onward. The emergence of asylums in the nineteenth century led to the development of professional organizations and the starting of training programs for nurses. Clinicians primarily gained their knowledge through hands-on experience in asylums, frequently with the guidance of more experienced medical professionals. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, there was some effort to formulate a curriculum for psychiatry education. Subsequently, psychiatric teaching and training programs have evolved across the globe. However, available data from different surveys suggest a wide variation in the psychiatry teaching and training programs worldwide, with low and middle-income countries lagging behind high-income countries in training and service provisions. The World Psychiatry Association has attempted to formulate the psychiatric curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate training. Still, these efforts are insufficient to harmonize teaching and training globally. There is a need for more concerted efforts to harmonize psychiatry teaching across the globe.