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Become a psychiatrist
- Choose Psychiatry
  
  Choose Psychiatry
  
  What is psychiatry?
  
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- Sixth formers and school students
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  National conference
  
  Summer and autumn schools
  
  FuturePsych – the student associate magazine
  
  The Student Psychiatry Audit and Research Collaborative (SPARC)
- Foundation doctors
  
  Foundation doctors
  
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  Making the most of your psychiatry placement
  
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  FuturePsych - the associate magazine
- Help us promote psychiatry
  
  Help us promote psychiatry
  
  How can I help?
  
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- Choose Psychiatry: Guidance for Medical Schools
- Supporting Medical Students: Medical Schools
Training
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- Your training
  
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  Understanding Career Choices in Psychiatry
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- Neuroscience in training
  
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- Deanery/LETB Hub
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- Undergraduate education forum
- International Medical Graduates
  
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- Quality Assurance in Training
- Credentialing
- CPD eLearning
- Building Capacity in Perinatal Psychiatry
  
  Building Capacity in Perinatal Psychiatry
  
  Perinatal 2022 Masterclass Programme application and process details
  
  Perinatal project resources
  
  About the Building Capacity Project
Members
Members
Events
Events
- Conferences and training events
  
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  MHA Section 12 and Approved Clinician Training
  
  Register your interest - Present State Examination Course 2022
  
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- International Congress 2022
  
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  Your guide to Congress
  
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  #RCPsychIC
- In-house training
  
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Improving care
Improving care
- College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)
  
  College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)
  
  What we do in the CCQI
  
  Quality Networks and Accreditation
  
  National Clinical Audits
  
  Multi-source feedback
  
  CCQI resources
  
  CCQI Who we are
  
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- Campaigning for better mental health policy
  
  Campaigning for better mental health policy
  
  The Mental Health Act (MHA)
  
  Five Year Forward View
  
  Integrated care and mental health
  
  Children and young people's mental health Green Paper
  
  RCPsych in Parliament
  
  Join our Research Panel
  
  College Reports
  
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  Other policy areas
  
  Mental Health Watch
  
  COVID-19: Guidance for clinicians
  
  Reforming The Mental Health Act
  
  Don't overlook mental health campaign
  
  The Mental Health Policy Group (MHPG)
- Planning the psychiatric workforce
  
  Planning the psychiatric workforce
  
  About workforce
  
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  Our workforce census
  
  Campaigning for the mental health workforce of the future
  
  Workforce strategy
  
  Job description approval process
- Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
  
  Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
  
  Our partners and first partnership activity
  
  How to work with the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
  
  Who's involved in the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre?
  
  Aims and objectives
  
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  About public mental health
- National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
  
  National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
  
  About NCCMH and our work
  
  Clinical guideline development
  
  Competence frameworks
  
  COVID-19 Mental Health Improvement Network
  
  Mental health quality improvement programmes
  
  National suicide prevention programme
  
  Reports and research
  
  RCPsych Enjoying Work Collaborative
  
  Reducing restrictive practice
  
  Service design and development
  
  Sexual Safety Collaborative
  
  Work with us
  
  Improving Quality in Inpatient Mental Health Settings Scoping and Design Exercise
- Physician Associates
  
  Physician Associates
  
  About Physician Associates
  
  Employing Physician Associates
  
  Becoming a Physician Associate
  
  Support for Physician Associates
  
  Physician Associates network
  
  The Competence Framework for Physician Associates in Mental Health
- Invited Review Service
- Public Health and its role in mental heath
- Sustainability and working sustainably
  
  Sustainability and working sustainably
  
  In your community
  
  In your practice
  
  In your trust
  
  Nature matters
  
  Sustainability scholars
  
  About sustainability in mental health care
  
  Sustainability resources
  
  Working sustainably (old)
  
  College position on sustainability
  
  Attending COP26
- RCPsych Course Accreditation
  
  RCPsych Course Accreditation
  
  Apply for accreditation
- Using quality improvement
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