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Community-oriented psychiatric care

Some ideas on training∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Joseph Connolly
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5
Isaac Marks
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5
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The College is debating how to train psychiatrists for community care (CC) that is spreading – ahead of hard evidence of its value for certain problems in the UK. Much future psychiatry will be practised in the community outside hospital within multidisciplinary teams not always led by a psychiatrist, and wherein the lead-rôle changes frequently within a single meeting depending on whose expertise and readiness to accept responsibility emerge.

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