Eagleson Claire, Cvejic Rachael C, Weise Janelle, Davies Kimberley, Trollor Julian N
Project Officer, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Lecturer, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2019 Oct;27(5):513-518. doi: 10.1177/1039856219839468. Epub 2019 Jul 11.
This study aimed to examine the training experiences of and determine capacity to train future Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists working in intellectual and developmental disability mental health.
Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists with expertise or interest in intellectual and developmental disability mental health completed an online survey detailing their training pathway, support for subspecialty training and capacity to provide rotations in this area.
Psychiatrists (=71) indicated the most common reasons they started practicing in intellectual and developmental disability mental health, and these included seeing people with intellectual or developmental disability in a service in which they worked, or personal experience with intellectual or developmental disability. Compared to those trained overseas, psychiatrists trained in Australia or New Zealand had lower ratings of the sufficiency of education received in intellectual and developmental disability mental health. Of the total respondents, 80% supported the development of subspecialty training. Augmentation of intellectual and developmental disability mental health content in the intermediate stage of training was also strongly supported. Participants identified 80 potential six-month training rotations in this area.
Psychiatrists working in intellectual and developmental disability mental health strongly support enhancements to intellectual or developmental disability training, including the development of subspecialty training, and can identify potential training capacity if such subspecialty training was developed.
本研究旨在调查未来从事智力和发育障碍心理健康工作的澳大利亚和新西兰精神科医生的培训经历，并确定培训能力。
对在智力和发育障碍心理健康方面具有专业知识或兴趣的澳大利亚和新西兰精神科医生进行了一项在线调查，详细了解他们的培训途径、对亚专业培训的支持以及在该领域提供轮转培训的能力。
71名精神科医生指出了他们开始从事智力和发育障碍心理健康工作的最常见原因，包括在其工作的服务机构中接触智力或发育障碍患者，或自身有智力或发育障碍的经历。与在海外接受培训的医生相比，在澳大利亚或新西兰接受培训的精神科医生对在智力和发育障碍心理健康方面所接受教育的充分性评价较低。在所有受访者中，80%支持开展亚专业培训。培训中期增加智力和发育障碍心理健康内容也得到了大力支持。参与者确定了该领域80个潜在的为期六个月的培训轮转岗位。
从事智力和发育障碍心理健康工作的精神科医生强烈支持加强智力或发育障碍培训，包括开展亚专业培训，并且如果开展此类亚专业培训，他们能够确定潜在的培训能力。
