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Experience in community child health as part of training in child and adolescent psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Hill
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School
Judith Dawkins
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital
Mary Anne Griffiths
Affiliation:
Chertsey Child Guidance Clinic
Ruth Talbot
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital, Tooting, London SW17
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Careers in psychiatry which commence straight after house jobs are now commonplace and an informal tradition by which future child psychiatrists worked in paediatrics before training in psychiatry is nowadays less rehearsed. Recently, one of the St George's psychiatric registrar rotations arranged a six month post as a community child health doctor (community clinical medical officer) for a psychiatric registrar (JD) who had expressed an interest in child psychiatry as a career but lacked experience in paediatrics.

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