The new curriculum for psychiatric training

Abstract

The UK's Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) went live on 30 September 2005. This editorial summarises the state of play and informs members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and stakeholders of the changes that have taken place in the intervening year and of the College's response. The College has received provisional approval of its core curriculum, and specialty curricula have been submitted for approval. We are in the middle of pilot work on workplace-based assessments and preliminary results should be available in the early part of 2007, when trainees and educational supervisors will begin training in the preparation for and carrying out of these assessments.