Dual training in General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry
Dual training in General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry is offered in Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education. The numbers of training posts available varies from year to year. The numbers of posts for a particular year would be advertised at the same time as single CCT’s. Doctors in training will spend two years in General Adult Psychiatry to include 6 months’ inpatient and 6 months’ community and two years in Old Age Psychiatry, with the expectation that Old Age posts would include 6 months inpatient experience and managing detained patients under The Mental Health Act. One year would be spent in Core General Adult Psychiatry and the second post could include an endorsable subject, such as rehabilitation psychiatry, substance misuse or liaison.