Regional postgraduate medical centres.

Postgraduate Medical Education Centres in Northern Ireland.

PROFESSIONAL training, with its ever-spreading ripples from undergraduate to postgraduate to continuing education of family doctors and consultants, has come to be recognised as the essential core of good medicine. Sir George Godber, who retired at the end of November 1973 from his appointment as Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, has stated that the postgrad...

Postgraduate Psychiatric Teaching Centres: Findings of a Survey

A survey by a questionnaire method was undertaken to enquire about the facilities, the level of medical and non-medical staffing, structure and functioning of psychiatric teaching centres offering teaching and training in psychiatry at postgraduate level. The results of the survey are presented and discussed. It is evident that postgraduate teaching centres are inadequately staffed and poorly e...

General Hospital in Postgraduate Psychiatric Training and Research

It is generally accepted that psychiatry is moving away from mental hospitals. The practice of psychiatry is more community based and community oriented. This shift is also evident in the field of psychiatric training and research both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. About 70% of the medical schools of our country have psychiatric departments and provide some form of education in psyc...

Postgraduate medical education in France.

IT is very difficult to present a picture of postgraduate medical education in France, since this is the result of activities in so many hospital and university centres, varying moreover from place to place. That in Paris is the most ambitious and will be described here. One other preliminary observation must be made: neither town nor country practitioners have much time to give to postgraduate...

The place of the regional hospital in postgraduate education: a practical approach.