<B>Viewpoint</B> – Undergraduate psychiatry training: a Belfast Experience

Undergraduate Training in Psychiatry an Evaluation

With the recognition of the inadequacy of psychiatric services in India, maximinig health care delivery has become apriority. Tliere is therefore need to concentrate upon undergraduate psychiatric training as means to increase the availabe numbers of professionals equipped to treat psychiatric disorders (Channabasavanna, 1986). Towards this end the present M.B.B.S. Psychiatric Training Programm...

Musculoskeletal ultrasound training in rheumatology: the Belfast experience.

OBJECTIVES Despite the increasing use of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) as a clinical tool in rheumatology, there is no consensus yet regarding the standards required to achieve a basic level of competence in the use of this imaging technique. A number of sonographers worldwide are developing curricula and standardizing teaching methods in order to improve training in MSUS for rheumatologist...

Tuberculous Scrofula: Belfast Experience

The Belfast blitzes of 1941 are blamed in our family for the scrofula of my younger brother and sister and myself. Guinea pigs and rabbits at Musgrave Park proved that each of us had bovine derived TB infection caused by failure to pasteurize milk when tuberculin-tested milk was not available. The clinical head of Harvard Medical School’s anti-tuberculosis effort contacted his boss, Professor M...

Ventricular defibrillation: the Belfast experience.

Psychotherapy training experience in an inner-city psychiatry rotation

AIMS AND METHOD A postal questionnaire was circulated to all psychiatrists who had completed their basic specialist training on the Royal London Hospital training scheme within the last 7.5 years. The aim of the questionnaire was to explore their psychotherapy experience while on the rotation. RESULTS The response rate was 95%. The respondents had a broad experience of both didactic and case wo...