The British Journal of Psychiatry 137: 163-169 (1980)
© 1980 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Introducing a course in psychiatry within the environment of a psychiatric hospital
R Chynoweth and RA Cannon
In 1977, the University of Adelaide extended the psychiatric training of
medical undergraduates to their 6th year. The four weeks course in
psychiatry, for groups of no more than sixteen students at one time, was
spent at an acute receiving unit of a psychiatric hospital and combined
with a series of visits to a wide range of psychiatric subspecialties in
the community. A systematic evaluation of the course showed that it was
well received by students and by the preceptors who supervised students in
the various hospitals and psychiatric units.