1 Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK 2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, UK 3 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Verona...

The UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR18005) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of child and adolescent psychiatry to the...

Initial enthusiasm about community mental health centers (CMHCs) has diminished. The participation of psychiatrists in CMHCs declined in the 1970s and may decline further. The author describes one center to highlight problems encountered by community psychiatrists: 1) unrealistic treatment expectations, 2) limitations of psychiatric knowledge, 3) need for a broad range of clinical expertise, 4)...

A small case-load is becoming one of the shibboleths of community psychiatry. The shibboleths of community psychiatry. The paper by Burns paper by Burns et al et al (2000, this issue) focuses (2000, this issue) focuses on this matter with a comparison of two on this matter with a comparison of two models of service delivery in recurrent psy-models of service delivery in recurrent psychotic illn...

What is the background to this post? General practitioner (GP) trainees undertake a 3-year training scheme. These have traditionally included defined periods of time spent in hospital jobs, with a general practice post at the end of training. Changes in the way GP training was funded in 2000 paved the way for the creation of ‘innovative training posts’, which permit trainees to combine general ...