Recruitment Strategy
Dr Tom Brown, Associate Registrar for
Recruitment, has developed a Recruitment Strategy. The aim of
the Recruitment Strategy is to increase recruitment to the CT1
grade of Core Psychiatry Training, achieving a 50% increase in
applications and a 95% fill rate by the end of the 5 year
campaign. The College’s Divisions will be the main vehicle
through which the strategy will be delivered as well as being
assisted by the Faculties and Sections, especially the Academic
Faculty. A new Committee, Promoting Recruitment into
Psychiatry, has been set up to oversee and co-ordinate the delivery
of the strategy. The membership of this committee includes a
consultant and trainee recruitment representative from each of the
College’s Divisions. If you have any queries regarding the
Recruitment Strategy, please contact Charlotte Collins.
As part of its 5 year Recruitment
Strategy, the College is keen to increase work experience
placements for senior school pupils. In the position
statement, the Registrar Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis, outlines
the College's support for psychiatrists and organisations
that offer year 12 and 13 students
the opportunity for work experience in psychiatry and
provides advice on how organisations can set up a process for
organising work experience placements in
psychiatry.
As part of its 5 year Recruitment
Strategy, the College is committed to increasing exposure to
psychiatry in the Foundation Programme. One way to achieve
this is to increase access to taster weeks in psychiatry.
Each College Faculty and Section has produced a template for a
taster week for foundation doctors in its specialty. We would
like to ask Consultant Psychiatrists around
the UK to consider setting up and offering a taster week
in psychiatry for foundation doctors, using the appropriate
template for this purpose. If you are willing to provide a
taster week, you should liaise with your local Foundation School
and Training Programme Directors.
A new booklet about a career in psychiatry has
been published; ‘Make
a difference. Improve lives: A career in
psychiatry’. If you would like to be sent copies of the
booklet for a careers event you are due to attend, please
email Charlotte
Collins.
There are currently approximately 2500 medical
students and 350 foundation doctors registered as Student
Associates of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It is
completely free for medical students and foundation doctors to join
as a Student Associate member and it offers many fantastic
benefits. This includes free electronic subscription to The
Psychiatrist, British Journal of Psychiatry and Advances in
Psychiatric Treatment. Please encourage all medical students
and foundation doctors to register as a Student Associate and
become involved in this great initiative.
- Tell us about recruitment initiatives
in your region
We would love to hear from you about any
initiatives that you know of or that you are involved with locally
to do with promoting recruitment into psychiatry, such as
psychiatry summer schools or supporting medical school psychiatry
society events. Please email Charlotte Collins with
details.
Updated 15 January 2013