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Survey of undergraduate teaching of old age psychiatry in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gabrielle M. Faire
Affiliation:
Mental Health Unit, Basildon Hospital, Basildon SS16 5NL
Cornelius L. E. Katona
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University College London School of Medicine, Wolfson Building, Middlesex Hospital, London W1N 8AA
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Old age psychiatry has been steadily developing as a specialty in the United Kingdom. In 1978 the Royal College of Psychiatrists established a specialist section for old age psychiatry, and since October 1989 it has been formally recognised as a sub-specialty of psychiatry. In 1989 the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists published a joint report entitled ‘Care of Elderly People with Mental Illness’ in which recommendations were made about both postgraduate and undergraduate training.

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