Part-time posts in psychiatry

Development of foundation year 1 psychiatry posts: implications for practice

The phrase ‘recruitment crisis’ in psychiatry is unfortunately not an alien concept, with the number of UK graduates entering psychiatry not matching workforce needs. In fact, recruitment ‘crisis’ is perhaps a misnomer, as recruitment into psychiatry has been consistently low at around 4% of UK graduates since the 1970s (Goldacre 2005). In the past, overseas recruits to the specialty have compe...

Part-level Sequence Dependent Setup Time Reduction in CMS

This paper presents the idea of creating cells while reducing part-level sequence-dependent setup time in general cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). Setup time reduction in CMS has gained modest attention in the literature. This could be attributed to the fact that the fundamental problem in cell formation in CMS has been mainly related to material handling and machine utilization while setu...

Psychiatry: time for change.

Psychiatry has changed. The terrific increase in neuroscientific research, which has occurred in the recent past few decades, has permitted the spread of the notion that the mind corresponds in part to the brain, and that psychiatric symptoms are also the results of disturbances of the brain. In addition, it has provided us sharpened instruments, ie, psychotropic drugs that, far from being spec...

Psychiatry and the Community. Part I

Philosophical Issues in Medicine and Psychiatry, Part IV

This article, the last in a 4-part series on philosophical problems in conventional and integrative medicine, focuses on problems related to deriving methodologies for identifying integrative assessment and treatment approaches. Methodologies used to verify claims made for a particular conventional or nonconventional approach can be regarded as empirically derived, consensus-based, or intuitive...