A career in psychiatry is challenging and rewarding. Psychiatric training in the United
Kingdom is well structured and run by twenty-one deaneries across England and Wales …

With the introduction of many reforms and changes in medical training in the UK,
postgraduate training has undergone significant transformation. The establishment of …

Postgraduate education and training in the UK is undergoing tremendous change. In this
paper the changes affecting psychiatry are described, with an account of the drivers …

The UK's Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) went live on 30
September 2005. This editorial summarises the state of play and informs members of the …

Background Recent training and education changes have raised important issues in
delivery of psychiatric education at all levels. In this article, the authors describe the current …

Many Irish graduates chose to pursue specialist psychiatric training in Britain. Regulations
governing UK specialist training are currently changing in response to European Union (EU) …

In recent years there has been a strong trend of emigration of Greek medical doctors. The
reason for this phenomenon is certainly multifactorial, but it has been greatly exacerbated …

Thank you for inviting me here today.... It is worth our while to remind ourselves of why we
are where we are at present. Our situation could not be more bewildering. There is or are:• A …

Psychiatric training in Ireland is comprised of a period of Basic Specialist Training (BST)
succeeded by a Higher Specialist Training (HST) programme. The BST in Ireland has been …

Consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry was first recognised as a subspecialty of adult
psychiatry in the UK in the 1980s (1). Training in psychiatry (as for all specialties) is …