The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

Choose Psychiatry – Making training flexible

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

Show Notes

In this podcast we hear from three trainees, who each talk about one way the College encourages and supports flexibility in psychiatry training. We also go into how we'll be making training even more flexible over the next five years.

It was hosted by Dr Declan Hyland, our Associate Dean for Choose Psychiatry (Careers), and we heard from Dr Rachel Kerrigan, Dr Jacqueline Haworth, and Dr Jehan Elturky.

View the transcript on our website: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/podcasts/detail/choose-psychiatry-making-training-flexible

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