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Conjoint job-share: conjugal bliss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew West*
Affiliation:
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Berkshire Adolescent Unit, Wokingham Hospital, Barkham Rd, Wokingham, Berks RG41 2RE
Karey Taylor
Affiliation:
John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford
*
Correspondence
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Abstract

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By describing a conjoint job-share in a single registrar post on an acute adult psychiatric ward in Wellington, New Zealand, this paper contributes to the growing literature on the subject of part-time training. We shared, on the one hand a registrar post and, on the other hand, our domestic life and the raising of our first child. We supplement our subjective impressions with information gathered from the multidisciplinary team, using a short

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Trainees Forum
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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