Handbook for Psychiatric Trainees

About the editors:Dinesh Bhugra is President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-11) and is also a past Dean of the College (2003-08); Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London; and an Honorary Consultant at the South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust. He has written extensively on cultural factors and mental illness, psychosexual medicine and spirituality.Oliver Howes has recently navigated specialist training and emerged relatively unscathed as Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuroimaging at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant at the South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust. He also teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry courses at the Maudsley and is a trainee mentor.

• 1. Psychiatric training: the next steps Dinesh Bhugra; 2. Global healthcare systems Dinesh Bhugra and Shekhar Saxena; 3. History and structure of the National Health Service Ross Overshott, Alistair Burns and Dinesh Bhugra; 4. The College Gareth Holsgrove, Vanessa Cameron and Dinesh Bhugra; 5. The General Medical Council Sheila A. Mann; 6. Ethical reasoning in psychiatry Gwen Adshead; 7. Compulsory treatment, capacity and consent Jonathan Bindman; 8. Bio-psychosocial models of aetiology and management Peter Tyrer; 9. Clinical psychology Padmal de Silva; 10. Occupational therapy Hilary Williams; 11. Mental health nursing Richard Gray and Hilary McCallion; 12. Social work Alan Rushton; 13. Chaplains in the psychiatric setting Mark Sutherland; 14. Personal safety Michael J. Travis; 15. Managing violence Michael J. Travis; 16. Managing difficult clinical situations Cleo Van Velsen; 17. Understanding and managing stress Jerome Carson and Frank Holloway; 18. Managing time: the key to professional success Carl Gray; 19. Negotiation skills Peter Hill; 20. Presentation skills Kalyani Katz and Pramod Prabhakaran; 21. Mental health review tribunals: reports and hearings Kalyani Katz and Pramod Prabhakaran; 22. How to get published Povl Munk-Jörgensen; 23. Mental health informatics Martin Baggaley; 24. Clinical governance Rosalind Ramsay and Eleanor Cole; 25. Lifelong learning and revalidation Joe Bouch; 26. Mentoring and shadowing Koravangattu Valsraj and Cecilia Wells; 27. The MRCPsych examinations Stephen Tyrer and Femi Oyebode; 28. Flexible training Jane Marshall; 29. UK training for overseas doctors and opportunities for UK doctors to train outside the EEC Nick Rose; 30. Academic careers Anne Farmer; 31. Higher degrees Sube Banerjee.