Changes: Royal College of Psychiatrists

Revision as of 14:30, 3 July 2009

Core purposes

Set standards and promote excellence in psychiatry and mental healthcare
Lead, represent and support psychiatrists
Work with service users, carers and their organisations

The College is committed to patient-centred practice through:

Professionalism
Innovation and research
Lifelong learning
Fairness and inlusion
Ethical practice
Multidisciplinary working

The Royal College of Psychiatrists promotes mental health. Mental health can be compromised by many factors, including mental and physical illnesses, learning disabilities, personality disorders, lifestyle and life experiences.

The College collaborates with key players in the mental health field and are champions for improvements in the quality of mental healthcare throughout all sectors of society.

Public education is at the heart of our activities and is an essential component of our website: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/

The College produces award-winning, evidence-based series of illustrated leaflets on common mental health problems. These are available in paper form and on the website.

The College publishes books, reports and educational materials for mental healthcare professionals.

It also publishes the four main UK psychiatric journals including the British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Bulletin, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment and International Psychiatry. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications.aspx

Interested in a career in psychiatry?

Mental illness is extremely common - research suggested that one person in four will experience some kind of mental health problem in their lifetime. Many of use may already have experience of mental health problems. We may have a relative, friend or partner who suffers from depression, or who has marital difficulties, problems with drugs or alchol or looking after a parent with dementia. These are issues that affect us all.

Psychiatrists are medically qualified doctors who have go on to specialise in the diagnosis of mental illness and who use a ranfe of medications and therapies to help people recover. Doctors are attracted to psychiatry as a profession for a number of reasons.
Psychiatry is: innovative, exciting and rewarding; UK training schemes for would-be psychiatrists are some of highest quality and well-structured on offer; working conditions are flexibale with many opportunities for part-time working, making it attractive to women and doctors with families.

To find out more, whether as a school leaver or undergraduate medical student:

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/specialtytraining/careersinpsychiatry.aspx

History of the College

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has been in existence in some form since 1841. First as the "Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane" (later changed to the Medico Psychological Association) then, in 1926 it received its Royal Charter to become the "Royal Medico Psychological Association, and finally, in 1971 receiving a Supplemental Charter to become the "Royal College of Psychiatrists"

Current contact details:

17 Belgrave Square

London

SW1X 8PG

Tel: 020 7235 2351

Fax: 020 7245 1231

email: rcpsych@rcpsych.ac.uk

External links

Royal College of Psychiatrists website

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 === Interested in a career in psychiatry? ===
 Mental illness is extremely common - research suggested that one person in four will experience some kind of mental health problem in their lifetime. Many of use may already have experience of mental health problems. We may have a relative, friend or partner who suffers from depression, or who has marital difficulties, problems with drugs or alchol or looking after a parent with dementia. These are issues that affect us all.
+*Psychiatrists are medically qualified doctors who have go on to specialise in the diagnosis of mental illness and who use a ranfe of medications and therapies to help people recover. Doctors are attracted to psychiatry as a profession for a number of reasons.
+*Psychiatry is: innovative, exciting and rewarding; UK training schemes for would-be psychiatrists are some of highest quality and well-structured on offer; working conditions are flexibale with many opportunities for part-time working, making it attractive to women and doctors with families.
+To find out more, whether as a school leaver or undergraduate medical student:
+http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/specialtytraining/careersinpsychiatry.aspx