scholarly journals Specialist Section for the Psychiatry of Old Age: Residential Conference Review

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 523-523
Author(s):  
Cait Goddard ◽  
Gianetta Rands
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
The Relationship

The third annual residential conference of the Section was held in Jersey from 5 to 7 March 1992. One hundred and twenty delegates gathered to hear from a range of practitioners. Trainees had a high profile – the policy of increasing to a third the proportion of higher trainees intending to be old age psychiatrists is beginning to bear fruit. A whole morning session was devoted to higher training issues ranging from the historical view of the relationship between old age psychiatry (OAP) and geriatrics, to a review of a successful higher training scheme, to innovative hopes for the future in the shape of Individual Performance Review (IPR) and an audit of audit. The senior registrar group's nationwide survey of current higher training experiences was presented.

scholarly journals Physical illness associated with depression in the elderly in community based and hospital patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 612-613
Author(s):  
Stephen Dover ◽  
Christopher McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Registrar Training

The co-existence of physical and psychiatric illness in so much of the elderly population poses diagnostic and therapeutic problems for psychiatrists, geriatricians and general practitioners alike, with the presence of physical illness strongly influencing and sometimes limiting the options for treatment of the psychiatric illness. Recognition of this has resulted in the Section of Old Age Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommending that senior registrar training in old age psychiatry should include a one month attachment to an approved geriatric medicine unit.

The ‘Out-of-Programme Experience’

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Stratford
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry

Mention an ‘Out-of-Programme Experience’ to colleagues and the result is often a somewhat bemused expression or some reference to the not-too-dissimilar-sounding, ‘Out-of-body-experience’. This has been the response on almost every occasion I have mentioned this, the official title for the 12 months I recently spent working as a senior registrar in old age psychiatry in Melbourne, Australia.

scholarly journals The ‘Out-of-Programme Experience’

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 112-114
Author(s):  
Joe Stratford
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry

Mention an ‘Out-of-Programme Experience’ to colleagues and the result is often a somewhat bemused expression or some reference to the not-too-dissimilar-sounding, ‘Out-of-body-experience’. This has been the response on almost every occasion I have mentioned this, the official title for the 12 months I recently spent working as a senior registrar in old age psychiatry in Melbourne, Australia.

scholarly journals Trainees' attitudes to single and dual training in old age psychiatry

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 471-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Allen ◽  
Rob Butler
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Flexible System ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Consistent Approach

AIMS AND METHODSTo undertake a nationwide survey to find out the attitudes of old age specialist registrars (SpRs) towards single and dual training. A questionnaire was sent to all old age SpRs in the UK.ResultsTwo-thirds of SpRs were undergoing dual training. Most trainees favoured a flexible system that offers the choice of single or dual accreditation. Many trainees had concerns about single accreditation. Schemes vary in whether they encourage one type of training or another.Clinical ImplicationsTraining schemes appear to vary unacceptably in their attitudes to training. There needs to be a more consistent approach nationally. Clearer guidance from the College may help.

scholarly journals Psychogeriatric training for senior registrars in geriatric medicine

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan R. Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry

Since the late 1960s the number of psychiatrists choosing to specialise in old age psychiatry has increased dramatically (Wattis, 1988) and in 1989 the Royal College of Psychiatrists recognised the specialty's status. Recent recommendations of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists (Report of a Joint Working Party of the Royal Colleges, 1989) have considerable implications for the continued development of cooperation between psychogeriatricians and geriatricians and for senior registrar (SR) training in both specialties. This study attempts to describe the availability of and attitudes towards training in psychogeriatrics (PG) of geriatric SRs.

Old-Age Psychiatry: 30-Year Perspective From the Institute of Psychiatry, London

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Mann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Postgraduate Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Looking Back

I have chosen the 30 years, 1969–1999, for this article, because this represents my psychiatric career from entry into the training scheme at the Maudsley Hospital to being current head of the old-age group at the Institute of Psychiatry. What becomes apparent, on looking back, is that the developments at this campus, which contains a psychiatric teaching hospital and a postgraduate research institute, reflect those in the UK over that time. In many areas, the lead has come from here. These activities will be reviewed and some challenges for the next decade proposed. The latter will be personal, from a researcher with an epidemiological/public health perspective.

scholarly journals Senior Registrar Training in Old Age Psychiatry in the United Kingdom

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 233-234
Author(s):  
J. P. Wattis
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Special Responsibility ◽  
Registrar Training

The Joint Committee on Higher Psychiatric Training (JCHPT) requires senior registrars (SRs) training for special responsibility posts in old age psychiatry to spend between one year and 18 months in higher training posts in which psychiatry of old age forms the major part of the work. Although only about a third of consultants in a recent survey had such training, there was strong evidence that more recently appointed consultants were likely to have recommended training. The availability of suitable training ‘slots’ seems likely to play a major role in how quickly specialised psychiatric services for old people can develop in response to the rising challenge posed by demographic changes. Jolley has already demonstrated how developments have been delayed by a shortage of properly trained candidates. Despite this the situation has now been reached where over two-thirds of the elderly population of the UK are served by specialised consultants albeit sometimes at inadequate manpower levels.

scholarly journals General adult and old age psychiatry specialist registrar training – crisis looming?

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 152-154
Author(s):  
Denise Cope
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Specialist Registrar ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Adult Psychiatry ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
National Training ◽  
Registrar Training

Aims and Methods A postal questionnaire was sent to 31 Specialist Registrar Training Programme Directors in general adult and old age psychiatry in England, Scotland and Wales to ascertain the recruitment position on their training scheme and their views on recruitment. Results There was no recruitment to 24% of specialist registrar (SpR) posts. A 17% increase in national training numbers in general adult and old age psychiatry had occurred in the schemes surveyed during the past 2 years. An insufficient number of senior house officer (SHO) posts was identified by 42% of respondents and the unattractiveness of general adult psychiatry recorded by 58% of respondents as factors in under-recruitment. Implications Under-recruitment at consultant level in general adult and old age psychiatry is being replicated at specialist registrar level. Trainees are not being encouraged into higher psychiatric training by increasing specialist registrar national training numbers. Insufficient SHO posts and the perceived unattractiveness of general adult psychiatry appear as significant factors contributing to poor recruitment at SpR level.

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