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Training for Community Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hugh Freeman*
Affiliation:
Hope Hospital, Salford, Manchester
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In 1968 the Royal Commission on Medical Education recommended that ‘every psychiatrist should be familiar with the conduct of community psychiatry’. This seems an uncontroversial piece of advice, but what is ‘the conduct of community psychiatry’? At the time of the Royal Commission, there was certainly no special training at all in anything that could reasonably have been regarded as such.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1985

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