The Role of a Consultant Psychiatrist in a Residential Caring Establishment: A personal view

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 173-175
Author(s):  
D. C. Wallbridge
Keyword(s):  
Personal View ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist

scholarly journals The Role of the Consultant Psychiatrist in Mental Handicap: A Personal View

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 347-348
Author(s):  
Caroline Marriott
Keyword(s):  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Joint Appointment

Since taking the decision to pursue a career in mental handicap, I have been increasingly aware of the debate surrounding the role of the consultant psychiatrist in this field. Nowhere else in medicine does there seem to be such uncertainty about the continued need for an already established specialty. I believe that one of the major reasons for the continued difficulty in attracting trainees into mental handicap is precisely this uncertainty about its future, which is in no way ameliorated by the College's view that a full time specialist appointment in the psychiatry of mental handicap is not superior to a joint appointment either with adult or child psychiatry.1

scholarly journals The Role of a Consultant Psychiatrist in a Residential Caring Establishment: a personal view

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 173-175
Author(s):  
D. C. Wallbridge
Keyword(s):  
Personal View ◽  
Staff Support ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist

In this paper I have outlined a model for the role of a Consultant Psychiatrist who is appointed for the purpose of providing ‘staff support’ in a Residential Caring Establishment. Some of the issues that arise are stated and discussed. The use of the model I propose leads to some recurrent, identifiable psychosocial phenomena which warrant further study and discussion.

Comment: ‘Devining’ The Role of the Consultant Psychiatrist in a Public Mental Health Service

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Public Mental Health Service ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Recovery Program

We admitted to ourselves, …and to our colleagues that we cannot treat people with severe and persistent mental illness as independent practitioners, and asked to be key players on the multidisciplinary team (Extract from A 12-Step Recovery Program for Psychiatrists [1]).

APPLICATION OF BIOMECHANICS TO TISSUE ENGINEERING: A PERSONAL VIEW

2008 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE K. MILTHORPE
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Mechanical Stimuli ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds ◽  
Cellular Behavior ◽  
Cellular Biomechanics ◽  
Biological Studies ◽  
Biomechanical Stimuli ◽  
Relationship Of

Cellular biomechanics is an area of study that is receiving more attention as time progresses. The response of cells to their mechanical environment, including biomechanical stimuli, has far-reaching ramifications for the area of tissue engineering, especially for tissues designed to withstand mechanical loading (e.g. bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments, and arteries). The effects of mechanical stimuli on cells are only recently being examined, and the potential role of mechanical stimuli in tissue engineering is still one that is largely ignored in the design of tissue engineering scaffolds. The relationship of mechanical properties of scaffolds or of mechanical stimuli to cell behavior is complex, but vital to the development of the field. Also, understanding the complex interplay of form and environment on cells involves an increase in our knowledge of how cells react to their total environment including mechanical stimuli and material properties. In order to improve tissue engineering outcomes, a nexus must be developed between the mechanical, biochemical, and biological studies of cellular behavior, in the context of extremely complex systems.

scholarly journals Struggling for Interdisciplinarity: Reflections of an Astrophysicist Working in Cultural Astronomy

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
César Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Natural Scientists ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Celestial Sphere

I present a personal view `on the role of astrophysicists and astronomers doing research in cultural astronomy. First, I discuss the definition of archaeoastronomy or cultural astronomy and its controversial interdisciplinary nature. I comment about the actual curricular problem of astrophysicists working in this topic and the difficult communication between astrophysicistsas well as other natural scientistsand archaeologists or anthropologists. I highlight the importance of accuracy in determining the orientation when mapping archaeological sites. Finally, I insist on the necessity of considering the celestial sphere as a part of the context of the archaeological sites, and that archaeoastronomy should be considered as a part of landscape archaeology.

scholarly journals Commissioning mental health services: role of the consultant psychiatrist

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Care Groups

The current National Health Service (NHS) approach to commissioning health services is in flux. The purchasing of care from providers by general practitioner fundholders (GPFHs) and health authorities has changed with the new White Papers. GPFHs no longer exist and the commissioning role is being handed over from health authorities to primary care groups (PCGs). An understanding of the reasons for change and current arrangements will aid the consultant psychiatrist in influencing this process.

Defining the Role of the Consultant Psychiatrist in a Public Mental Health Service

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Boyce ◽  
Margaret Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Role ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
The Public ◽  
Principal Roles ◽  
Clinical Problems

Objective: The aim of this paper is to clarify elements of the role of a psychiatrist working in the public sector. Method: The relevant literature was examined to help clarify some of the reasons psychiatrists have been leaving the public sector and to help define the key roles of a psychiatrist working in the public sector. Results: Two principal roles for the consultant psychiatrist in the public sector are identified: the psychiatrist as a clinician and the psychiatrist as a manager. The management role is contrasted with the role as an administrator and important differences between these roles are identified. The management role includes planning, advocacy and managing human resources. The importance of professional development in the career path for the newly qualified psychiatrist is discussed. Conclusions: The role of the psychiatrist in public sector psychiatry is a challenging and exciting one. Psychiatrists will start to return to the public sector when they recognise this new role for the consultant psychiatrist. This will be to the advantage of public sector psychiatry in general and to the job satisfaction of psychiatrists. The key features of the clinical role are the demonstration of sophisticated clinical skills, providing clinical leadership via supervision, being accountable for patient care and providing consultant opinion on complex clinical problems.

scholarly journals The role of the consultant psychiatrist in the clinical team

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 347-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Clinical Team ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
The Many ◽  
Medical Audience

Many psychiatrists are deeply disturbed by the changing and challenging circumstances in which they are responsible for patient care. This became evident at a conference on the role of the consultant in the clinical team, held by the Health Services Manpower Review at the Royal Society of Medicine on 14 July 1988 and attended by an entirely medical audience. The need for the consultant to act as leader of the clinical team was emphasised without identifying the nature and extent of this task, resulting in the failure to develop any strategy to tackle the many problems identified.

The role of the resident: a personal view

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-116
Author(s):  
John Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Personal View
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