scholarly journals More than just the mental health act – foundation-specific teaching to inspire psychiatrists

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S139-S140
Author(s):  
Robert Heminway ◽  
Lauren Fitzmaurice ◽  
Hamid Alhaj ◽  
Edward Fearnley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Teaching

AimsThis project aimed to further develop a teaching programme for Foundation Doctors attached to a psychiatry rotation. The purpose was threefold – to educate foundation doctors about important psychiatric topics; to encourage them to think about wider impacts of psychiatry; and to inspire them to consider psychiatric training in the longer term.BackgroundThe Royal College of Psychiatrists’ mission statement includes actively promoting psychiatry as a career and improving knowledge of mental health, including its interactions with people's physical and social backgrounds. Targeting foundation doctors rotating into psychiatry posts is a good opportunity to achieve these objectives, as they will be the cross-speciality doctors of the future, and have specific learning needs given their unique rotations and new medical careers.MethodOn one Wednesday morning per month Foundation Doctors had a specific teaching session for them. The sessions consisted of four 30-minute teaching blocks which, crucially, were given by foundation doctors. They were facilitated by a core psychiatry trainee, and the topics were decided by the doctor teaching each 30-minute block. The foundation doctors were able teach on any topic related to psychiatry that interested them. Feedback forms were developed and provided at the end of each session for the foundation doctors, as well as at the end of each recent foundation rotation, to get feedback on the overall quality of the course delivered.ResultThe programme has now had 6 complete cohorts of foundation doctors. We have built a varied topic bank from past sessions, including the Mental Health Act, dementia, the Mind-Body Problem, psychiatry in video games and sociology of psychiatric illness, amongst other topics. All foundation doctors questioned have agreed or strongly agreed that the sessions were helpful for their psychiatric rotation and general medical training. Particularly praised aspects were the ability to discuss psychiatric topics that weren't normally discussed in an academic environment, being able to take ownership over learning and practicing giving teaching. Vitally, core trainee facilitators also found the sessions inspiring for their training.ConclusionThe Foundation Teaching Programme has increased doctors’ knowledge of a range of psychiatric topics, the breadth of which and agency in choosing topics has increased engagement with psychiatry, regardless of planned medical training speciality. Areas to explore in the future include potentially opening attendance to medical students and physician associate students, and to other regions of the deanery. Evaluating the long-term impact of this training is also warranted.

Setting up Psychiatric Liaison Schemes to Magistrates' Courts: Problems and Practicalities

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
D V James ◽  
L W Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Future

Guidelines are set out to aid those wishing to establish psychiatric liaison services to magistrates' courts, as recommended by the Home Office. The account is based upon 20 months' experience of running such a scheme at Clerkenwell magistrates' court in inner London. The practical problems in initiating such a service are explored together with difficulties likely to be encountered in its running. These include questions of personnel, interviewing facilities, relations with other disciplines, legal issues concerning the Mental Health Act and problems encountered in negotiating with catchment area services. Suggestions are given as to how difficulties may be overcome. The future of liaison schemes to magistrates' courts is discussed.

scholarly journals Section 136 and the Police

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 224-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dunn ◽  
Thomas Fahy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Mental Health Act

Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 is a controversial section. It authorises a police constable, often with no psychiatric training, to take a mentally disordered person from a public place to a place of safety, usually a hospital or a police station, so that he or she may be assessed by a doctor and a social worker within a 72 hour period. There have been several studies looking at this section from the point of view of psychiatrists, social workers, and other interested parties, in particular MIND. The aim of this study was to find out from the police whether or not problems arose during their dealings with people whom they had placed on section 136.

scholarly journals Guardianship – a case for wider use

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Symonds
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Future ◽  
Treatment Order ◽  
Community Treatment Order

Few psychiatrists have had much experience of guardianship (Section 7, Mental Health Act, 1983). The two cases described have been successful and suggest wider use of this section. It seems apposite in view of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' advice on discharge of patients from hospital, and discussion on a community treatment order; the continuing drive to community care, as codified in the ‘Care Programme Approach’; and the need in the future to treat increasingly disturbed individuals in the community as envisaged in the Reed report.

scholarly journals Psychiatric leadership development in postgraduate medical education and training

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Alex Till ◽  
Radhika Sen ◽  
Helen Crimlisk
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Training ◽  
Medical Education And Training ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
Medical Leadership

Summary The value of strong, compassionate medical leadership in the delivery of high-quality care to patients within mental health services is clear. Leadership development, however, is far less well explored. This article is for psychiatric trainees, trainers and mental health organisations. It provides an introduction to the importance of leadership development within postgraduate medical training, the theory that should underpin its delivery, and the opportunities for both informal and formal leadership development within psychiatric training.

The Observation Ward and the Psychiatric Emergency

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (470) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Snaith ◽  
S. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Future ◽  
Special Provision

In 1937 an excellent investigation, by Pentreath and Dax, of the work of a London observation ward appeared in the Journal of Mental Science. In the course of their conclusions, they pointed out that: “observation wards are still in their infancy so far as their developmental possibilities are concerned—in fact, we are still in the process of deciding what their purpose should be.” In the ferment of ideas that culminated in the Mental Health Act of 1959, and the fresh insights into administrative psychiatry which have followed, the future function of such units seems to have received little attention. Freeman and Farndale's book Trends in the Mental Health Services (1963) does not introduce the concept of the psychiatric emergency, nor does it consider any special provision for these patients.

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