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Senior registrar training in home treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Marcellino Smyth
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, All Saints Hospital, Lodge Road, Winson Green, Birmingham B18 5SD
Pat Bracken
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, All Saints Hospital, Lodge Road, Winson Green, Birmingham B18 5SD
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Abstract

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We offer an account of training experience within an inner city service dedicated to home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission for acute psychiatric illness. The Ladywood service in Birmingham is described and the challenges and opportunities for trainees outlined. A dominantly institutional based training seemed to us deficient, after this exposure. We regarded home treatment very positively and felt that it enriched our professional development in both clinical and conceptual terms.

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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