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Multi-district Rotational Schemes for Post-graduate Trainees in Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Som D. Soni ,
Alan Tait ,
Sally Pidd  and
David P. Goldberg
Som D. Soni
Affiliation:
Salford Rotational Training Scheme, Hope Hospital, Salford
Alan Tait
Affiliation:
North Manchester Rotational Scheme, Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne
Sally Pidd
Affiliation:
Lancaster Moor Rotational Scheme, Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster
David P. Goldberg
Affiliation:
Specialty Training Group, University of Manchester, Manchester
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The exercise of hospital accreditation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists has resulted in a significant improvement in the standards of psychiatric training in this country.1 The North West, more than any other region, adopted the policy of District General Hospital psychiatry2 in the sixties which had the effect of creating small psychiatric units, unable to muster enough resources, to provide comprehensive training programmes by themselves. These developments have highlighted the problems of organising viable rotational schemes for training in psychiatry.3,4,5

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 13 - 15
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