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Chapter 3 - Going Beyond ‘Good Enough’ Teaching in Psychiatric Training

from Section 1 - Teaching and Preparation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2022

By
S. Neil Sarkar  and
Victor Cohn
Edited by
Sarah Huline-Dickens  and
Patricia Casey
Sarah Huline-Dickens
Affiliation:
Mount Gould Hospital, Plymouth
Patricia Casey
Affiliation:
Hermitage Medical Clinic, Dublin
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Summary

Psychiatrists must seek to make the most of the opportunity offered by the increase in Foundation Programme training posts in psychiatry (see Chapter 15), while continuing to enhance the teaching of medical undergraduate students. We need to create good doctors who are highly professional, good communicators and sympathetic to psychosocial needs of all patients. We also need to improve recruitment to our own specialty.

Medical students prefer to learn general skills rather than specialised ones – this is a ‘strategic’ outlook that cuts their workload. For a busy foundation year doctor, this problem is further magnified by the added pressure and responsibility of working and the steep learning curve that comes with it. Students’ and trainees’ views must be balanced with the necessity to teach fundamental principles of psychiatry, otherwise the care of the mentally ill will be compromised through lack of knowledge (Davies 2000; Oakley 2008).

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Clinical Topics in Teaching Psychiatry
A Guide for Clinicians
 , pp. 29 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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