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 Approaches to Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry in Canada:
What Educators and Residents Need to KnowEdited by: John S. Leverette, Gary S. Hnatko, Emmanuel Persad
Approaches to Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry in Canada is written in support of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's (RCPSC) updated Objectives of Training Requirements (OTR) and Specialty Training Requirements (STR) in Psychiatry which came into effect in July 2008. It is intended to enhance understanding of these documents and breathe life into them by presenting a toolbox approach to training paradigms. The tools exemplify strategies that will realize the RCPSC training objectives while recognizing the variable resources available to Canadian departments of psychiatry. It is directed primarily to psychiatric educators and residency program directors to assist in the implementation of RCPSC standards and to psychiatric residents in order that they may have in-depth knowledge of the competencies required for contemporary practice.
The book also helps develop awareness about the breadth and depth of the competencies and practice of the sophisticated psychiatric generalist in Canada. It advances knowledge about the specialty of psychiatry to the broad community of educators in the medical and surgical disciplines, associate deans of postgraduate medical education in Canada, officials in the provincial ministries of health and education and international psychiatric educators.
The contributing authors are representative experts and leaders in their field and many were extensively involved as members of the Canadian Psychiatric Association's Working Group on a National Strategy for Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry. These partners substantially contributed to the revisions to the RCPSC OTR and STR in Psychiatry including the definition and behavioural anchoring of the core competencies. All of this serves to support the practice of the sophisticated general psychiatrist delivering care across the lifespan in a variety of settings in collaboration with others.
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February 04, 2012
