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Objectives and Training in Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter Brook*
Affiliation:
Warley Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 5HQ

Summary

The recommendations on postgraduate training made by the World Health Organization, the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and the Royal Medico-Psychological Association are examined in the light of modern concepts of educational objectives. In this country no well defined, specific, assessable and detailed objectives have yet been formulated for postgraduate training in psychiatry.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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