Abstract

Over recent years there has been an increase in the number of training schemes in general psychiatry which offer posts in the psychiatry of mental handicap. I will describe my experience as a registrar during a nine month full-time placement in psychiatry of mental handicap as part of the Charing Cross Rotational Training Scheme in Psychiatry.

Highlights

  • The placement was based at Cell Barnes Hospital in St Albans which is a hospital for people with mental handicap, originally built as a colony in the 1920s

  • My main experience was within the field of psychi atric, psychological, social and behavioural prob lems of people with mental handicap

  • I learnt about the difficulties of diagnosing mental illness among people with mental handicap and of locating aetiological factors

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Summary

Training in the psychiatry of mental handicap

I will describe my experience as a registrar during a nine month full-time placement in psy chiatry of mental handicap as part of the Charing Cross Rotational Training Scheme in Psychiatry

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