[Present status in post-graduate psychiatry education for residencies at the general hospital without psychiatric ward].

Senior psychiatrists at general hospital without psychiatric ward are usually so short of both manpower and time that they should easily lose incentives to collaborate with residents who would come at least one month under 2004 reform of residency. In this article, the author argue that the handicaps where residents should serve outpatient clinic and consultation-liaison-service at the hospital and experience other hospitals or institutions for relatively short term (mainly only one month at most) are not handicaps at all but features. Supervision during overall period of residency which concerns residents' career development and mental health, peer-supervision using live cameras or video recording, qualitative approach which utilizing weekly problem solution tasks were introduced to maintain incentives to collaboration.