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Training in the psychiatry of mental handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jona Lewin
Jona Lewin*
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St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE
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Over recent years there has been an increase in the number of training schemes in general psychiatry which offer posts in the psychiatry of mental handicap. I will describe my experience as a registrar during a nine month full-time placement in psychiatry of mental handicap as part of the Charing Cross Rotational Training Scheme in Psychiatry.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 1993 , pp. 152 - 153
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References

Royal College of Psychiatrists (1978) Memorandum on mental handicap. Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2, 56–61.Google Scholar
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Royal College of Psychiatrists (1985) Registrar training in mental handicap. Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 9, 206.Google Scholar
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