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Mental Handicap^*

Summary of Recommendations:

1. That basic experience in Mental Handicap be given as part of a rotational training scheme at registrar level.

2. That 20 new registrar posts providing clinical experience in mental handicap be established as soon as possible and incorporated within existing rotation programmes at registrar and SHO level. Further registrar posts in mental handicap to be provided in subsequent years in the light of experience, up to a possible target of 90.

3. That 5 senior registrar posts in mental handicap be established within two years of the above recommendation being implemented and that a further 5 posts be created two or three years later.

4. That the Royal College of Psychiatrists Manpower Sub-Committee give immediate attention to Recommendations 2 and 3 above with a view to encouraging their implementation.

5. That University medical schools appoint a teacher in Mental Handicap at an appropriately senior level who would be concerned with both post-graduate and undergraduate teaching in mental handicap.

6. That research in the field be encouraged at all academic centres.

7. That a medical Chair in Mental Handicap be established immediately.