Dual Fellowships Training Program (DFTP) in Paediatrics and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Components of Training

Seven years training in total, including the three or four year dual program supervised by the Joint Training Committee.

Pathway A

• Minimum of three years of clinical paediatrics, with at least two years in a University Teaching Centre, supervised by the CPPT
• Some flexibility in content and timing of components of training
• Interruptions of training will be considered by the Joint Training Committee on a case by case basis with reference to the requirements of Pathways A and B.

From Paediatric Stream (four years of training)
Minimum of eighteen months of training in adult psychiatry in an integrated community training position with general hospital specialist hospital and community based experience.

• Minimum of two years of training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, fulfilling all requirements of the Committee for Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CTCAP).
• A further six months which may consist of:
  
  • clinical paediatrics
  • adult consultation-liaison psychiatry
  • child consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Supervision is by the Joint Training Committee, with input from the CTCAP and the CPPT
• All training positions must be accredited by the Joint Training Committee
• Although the timing of these components is flexible according to individual requirements, training opportunities and assessment requirements, you are strongly advised to enter a period of adult psychiatry once Basic Training in paediatrics is completed.

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Assessment

Pathway A ( from paediatric stream)

• Five case histories (5000-8000 words)
  
  • Five case histories must be completed prior to the Section I Examination
  • It is required that at least two case histories be prepared for adult patients
• Section I FRANZCP Examination - Written and Clinical
  
  • Must complete thirty-six months of psychiatry training with all the usual requirements (incorporating any exemptions granted)
  • Dissertation (Section II FRANZCP Examination)
  • To be presented following the Section I Examination, and towards the end of psychiatry training
• Documentation and supervision of training as required by the Fellowships Board.

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