The Maudsley offers a three year training programme in clinical psychiatry and in the sciences basic to psychiatry. The programme aims to combine the opportunity for doctors to acquire the necessary clinical skills, experience and knowledge of general psychiatry as well as of its speciality and sub-speciality subjects, with an academic course which promotes the ability critically to evaluate clinical and research data and also to conduct original research.
Clinical placements are typically for six months.
In their first year trainees normally work in general adult psychiatry posts. The course takes place on two afternoons a week and it consists of seminars in clinical psychiatry, training in clinical skills, and teaching on research methods, investigations and treatments in psychiatry. The course is organised to accommodate two intakes on trainees in April and October of each year and each intake has its own Course Tutor. In their second and third years, trainees have the opportunity to work in a selection of clinical posts which provide both further general and special experience. Each module is organised by a senior teacher and trainees will attend at least one module each term.