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Psychiatrists: Background, Career and Career Alternatives of a Group of Recently Appointed Consultants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter Brook*
Affiliation:
Warley Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 5HQ

Extract

This paper reports the finding of one section of the third of a series of surveys on the training and background of a group of recently appointed consultant psychiatrists. The original survey was a postal enquiry primarily concerned with training, which was circulated to every consultant psychiatrist in the United Kingdom who had been appointed to a post in general psychiatry, with at least 6 N.H.S. sessions, between 1 October 1963 and 30 September 1966 (Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 1969). The second survey, using a different form of questionnaire, and enquiring more closely into background and motives for going into the specialty, was circulated to consultants appointed between the 1 October 1966 and 30 September 1969 (Brook, 1972; Brook, 1973).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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