The West Midlands Senior Registrar Rotational Training Scheme in General and Geriatric Medicine has established links with the Senior Registrars in Psychiatry of the Elderly and their trainers. Reciprocal attachments to one another's specialty are encouraged and expected, much along the lines of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and British Geriatrics Society recommendations. This has been gratifyingly successful: the attachments have proved very satisfactory in themselves and have led to joint research and to friendships, some of which may form the basis of harmonious and constructive working relationships in years to come.