Year 5: Specialty Training Year ST8

 

Medical Psychotherapy in Psychiatry: five days

 

This final year of dual training is devoted to honing competence in psychotherapy and its applications in various settings of psychiatry. 

The aim in this final year of dual training is for the trainee to begin to consolidate the integration of their psychiatric and psychotherapeutic experience that has been developing over the previous four years and to consolidate their emerging as a psychotherapeutic psychiatrist in mental health services.

The trainee’s placements and Advanced Training Plan (see Appendix A) will, in the latter part of the training, have come to reflect particular areas of special interest and career aspiration as far as possible with placements agreed in collaboration with Educational Supervisors and the Medical Psychotherapy and General Psychiatry Training Programme Directors.