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Psychiatric training of pre-registration house officers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. M. O'Dwyer*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield Department of Psychiatry, Northern General Hospital Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU
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Abstract

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Aims and method

The aim of the paper is to describe the pre-registration house officer training in psychiatry available in Sheffield. The report is the result of a postal questionnaire, involving all of those who undertook pre-registration house officer training in psychiatry, since the inception of this option.

Results

The results suggest that the psychiatry option as part of pre-registration house officer training was regarded as useful by almost all undertaking this training. Some of the suggestions to improve the experience are already incorporated into the current posts.

Clinical implications

The findings support the development of further posts of this type, and such developments may assist in overcoming some of the difficulties in recruitment into psychiatry as a career.

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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.
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

References

General medical Council (1997) The New Doctor. Recommendations on General Clinical Training made under Section 5 of the Medical Act 1983. London: GMC.Google Scholar
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