Psychiatry for the general practitioner trainee

ABC of flexible cystoscopy for junior trainee and general practitioner

INTRODUCTION Flexible cystoscopy is a diagnostic procedure usually performed under local anesthesia and has been used in the outpatient setting since the 1980s. METHODS We performed an electronic search of MEDLINE(®) and the Cochrane Central Search Library between 1990 and 2010. Duplicate references were removed. One reviewer extracted the publications relevant to general clinical practice. ...

Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry for the General Practitioner

The improvement in the public health during the past century has resulted in an increased expectation of life. Today the public have gone a step further, and they are showing an increasing interest not only in the quantity of life available to each person but also in the quality of that life. Certainly what prevents many from enjoying a full and productive life within the affluent society in wh...

Manual of Psychiatry for the Medical Student and General Practitioner

General practitioner referral rates to district psychiatry and psychology services.

The number of referrals made to a district psychiatry service by each of the local general practitioners over a five year period was counted and a large variation in general practitioner referral rate was found. Ten referral letters from each of the general practitioners were independently assessed for the amount of detail included and a mean score for each general practitioner obtained. A sign...

The trainee practitioner and the social services department.