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Planning Registrar and Senior Registrar Training in Mental Handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. A. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Meanwood Park Hospital, Leeds
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The development of more rotational training schemes in psychiatry for registrars and senior registrars is introducing more trainees to mental handicap. Generally, however, mental handicap is not regarded by the trainees as the most interesting or highly-prized assignment; because of the nature of the patients, the long-stay hospitals involved and unfamiliarity with its problems, mental handicap lacks the appeal of some other subspecialties in psychiatry.

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