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

Exemptions

Further details of the training and examination requirements set out above for Dual Fellowships trainees are specified in:

• The RANZCP Fellowships Board of Training and Examinations By-Laws with explanatory notes (1996)
• The RANZCP Committee for Training in Child Psychiatry of the Fellowships Board
• Guidelines for Training for the Certificate of satisfactory completion of training in Child Psychiatry (1988); and
• and any subsequent versions of these documents.
  In acknowledgement of the prior training and experience of entrants into the Dual Fellowships Training Program, exemptions may be granted for the following components of this training program.

Pathway A (from paediatric stream)

• Six months mandatory training in child and adolescent psychiatry
  (By-law 4.2.2, RANZCP)
  exemption may be granted following satisfactory completion of the first six months of the training program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• First year Assessment (By-laws 3.2,3.3,3.4,3.5, RANZCP)
• General Medicine Examination (By-law 4.2.7, RANZCP)
• Experience in a sub-specialty of psychiatry (By-law 4.2.4, RANZCP)
  This requirement may be satisfied by six months training in child psychiatry
• Elective year of Training (By-Law 5(b), RANZCP)
  On completion of the Section I FRANZCP Examination and 48 months accredited psychiatric training, DFTP trainees may be exempt from this requirement.

Pathway B (from psychiatry stream)

• One year of Basic Training
• Two years of Advanced Training
• Two projects.

It is emphasised that these exemptions are not transferable from the Dual Fellowships Training Program to the RACP or RANZCP Fellowship Program.

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