Trajectory to Fellowship: Further examination of the road to becoming a psychiatrist

Abstract

For those who attained Fellowship, the median training time was 6.1 years. It was common for trainees to attain Fellowship in the minimum time of 5 years. Delaying the completion of assessments or examinations contributed to the expanded time to attain Fellowship Training, as did part-time training and breaks in training.

Introducing a competency based Fellowship programme for psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand

“…The College and AMC identified that trainees were not completing training in the expected minimum timeframe of five years. 9,10 Few regulations existed that promoted the reasonable and timely completion of training milestones. This included those trainees with multiple failed attempts at summative assessments; no limits existed on the time taken to achieve these examinations.…”

Navigating through the Competency Based Fellowship Program: two trainees’ experience of the 2012 program

“…The introduction of this program has led to a number of articles written in College journals. [2][3][4][5][6][7] These articles have academically analysed the program, but, until now, nothing has been published on the lived experiences of the trainees who have been through it. As two registrars from the class of 2013 who have completed the external examination components, we have often been asked about our experiences of the program.…”