Oakley Clare, Malik Amit, Kamphuis Femke
Specialty Registrar, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham B15 2QZ, UK, email
President, European Federation for all Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT), Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 3PW, UK.
Int Psychiatry. 2008 Oct 1;5(4):100-102. eCollection 2008 Oct.
There are striking and significant differences in psychiatric training across Europe and procedures for the assessment of trainees vary widely (Strachan, 2007). The introduction of competency-based training represents a major shift in medical education and a challenge to harmonising psychiatric training in Europe. This paper discusses the development and implementation of competency-based training in the Netherlands and the UK and focuses on its effects on trainees.