Multi-professional training in psychiatry

Training General Practioners in Psychiatry — an Icmr Multi-centre Study

The specialist psychiatric services available in India is insufficient to meet the mental health needs of the country. Training of general practitioners in psychiatry through short courses is one of the remedial strategies. In 1982-83, an ICMR Multi-Centre Project of Training in Psychiatry for Non-Psychiatrist Primary Care Doctors was successfully completed at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Vellore u...

General professional training in psychiatry in the South-west Thames Region.

Using entrustable professional activities to guide curriculum development in psychiatry training

BACKGROUND Clinical activities that trainees can be trusted to perform with minimal or no supervision have been labelled as Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). We sought to examine what activities could be entrusted to psychiatry trainees in their first year of specialist training. METHODS We conducted an online survey of Fellows of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psyc...

Social skills training in psychiatry

Communication skills are important to overall wellbeing, for creating positive interpersonal atmosphere and for solving interpersonal problems. Many patients suffering with various psychiatric disorders suffer from either a state-dependent decrease of social skills or lifelong deficits of such skills. Patients with social skills deficits such as problems with communication with others people, s...

Training in tobacco treatments in psychiatry: a national survey of psychiatry residency training directors.

OBJECTIVE Nicotine dependence is the most prevalent substance abuse disorder among adult psychiatric patients and is a leading cause of death and disability. This study examines training in tobacco treatment in psychiatry residency programs across the United States. METHOD The authors recruited training directors to complete a survey of their program's curriculum related to tobacco treatment,...