Abstract
(1) A Joint Working Party of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Psychiatrists prepared a report on training general practitioners in psychiatry in 1974. This was circulated to all regional advisers and course organisers and was published in 1978. Since that time, there have been advances in the treatment of patients with psychiatric disease and considerable change in the organisation of health care services which have resulted in an increasing proportion of psychiatrically ill people being cared for in the community rather than in the hospital setting. With these changes in mind, both Colleges felt that it would be appropriate to convene another joint working party to review the arrangements for the psychiatric component of vocational training for general practice. This report revises the objectives for training that were agreed in 1974 and makes recommendations for the organisation that will achieve them.
Highlights
(b) Discussion should be established at local level between general practitioner vocational training course/scheme organisers, clinical tutor and local consultant psychiatrists to agree how the objectives for training in psychiatry specified in this report can be achieved by all doctors training for general prac tice
(c) The local arrangements for the psychiatric component of vocational training for general prac tice should ensure that trainees are clear about what it is that they are expected to learn, and that there is sufficient time available for formal teaching and induction programmes at the beginning of posts to ensure that each trainee can cope with emergency and life threatening conditions
(g) Both Colleges support the recommendation of the General Medical Council (9) for the need for explicit protected time for learning to be available and for the supervision of training to be undertaken by a clearly identified and named person for each appointment.These requirements will be viewed as mandatory in approving posts
Summary
(g) Both Colleges support the recommendation of the General Medical Council (9) for the need for explicit protected time for learning to be available and for the supervision of training to be undertaken by a clearly identified and named person for each appointment (paragraph 16).These requirements will be viewed as mandatory in approving posts. It is important that at a local level general practitioner vocational training course/ scheme organisers and local consultant psychiatrists should agree how these objectives will be achieved for both groups of trainees - that is, those with and those without experience as an SHO in psychiatry.
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