Last Steps as a Trainee, First Steps as a Consultant Specialist

The transition from being a senior trainee to a qualified specialist presents a variety of challenges under normal circumstances, with the pandemic further disrupting the experience of trainees. This presents an environment where the acquisition of key competencies, both clinical skills and wider ca...

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Main Author: C. O’Loughlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-06-01
Series:European Psychiatry
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822001936/type/journal_article
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Summary:The transition from being a senior trainee to a qualified specialist presents a variety of challenges under normal circumstances, with the pandemic further disrupting the experience of trainees. This presents an environment where the acquisition of key competencies, both clinical skills and wider capabilities, becomes more demanding for trainees and where training organisers need to re-evaluate their programmes to consider the different opportunities available. This introduction to the interactive session will consider how the experience in the United Kingdom led to new ways of delivering training, the challenges faced and consider the key skills new specialists need to be effective clinical leaders as they move into a senior role.
ISSN:0924-9338
1778-3585