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

Stephen Jurd; Wayne de Beer; Margaret Aimer; Scott Fletcher; Elaine Halley; Cathy Schapper; Michelle Orkin

doi:10.1177/1039856215600898

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

Australas Psychiatry. 2015 Dec;23(6):699-705. doi: 10.1177/1039856215600898. Epub 2015 Sep 23.

Authors

Stephen Jurd¹, Wayne de Beer², Margaret Aimer³, Scott Fletcher⁴, Elaine Halley⁵, Cathy Schapper⁶, Michelle Orkin⁷

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, and; Director of Training, Psychiatry Training Centre, Macquarie Hospital, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
² Clinical Training Director, Clinical Education and Training Unit and Specialist (Consultation-Liaison psychiatry), Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand.
³ RANZCP Education Committee Chair and Development and Delivery Lead, Health System Innovation and Improvement, Ko Awatea, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁴ Research and Reporting Officer, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Scott.Fletcher@ranzcp.org.
⁵ General Manager, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Australia.
⁶ Former Training and Continuing Medical Education Manager, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Project Manager - Competency-based Fellowship Program, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

PMID: 26400448
DOI: 10.1177/1039856215600898

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to summarise the new psychiatry Fellowship programme and its rationale, highlighting the new inclusions, revised assessment structure, the benefits and structure of the programme.

Conclusions: The 2012 Fellowship programme is based on the CanMEDs educational framework. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) underwent a comprehensive process, adapting the CanMEDs competencies to a psychiatric framework and mapping the curriculum to Fellowship competencies, learning outcomes and developmental descriptors of the various stages of training. The 2012 Fellowship programme introduced summative entrustable professional activities (EPAs), formative workplace-based assessments (WBAs) and revised external assessments.

Keywords: CanMEDs; RANZCP; competency; education; psychiatry; training.

MeSH terms

Australia
Competency-Based Education* / methods
Competency-Based Education* / organization & administration
Education
Education, Medical, Graduate* / methods
Education, Medical, Graduate* / organization & administration
Educational Measurement / methods
Fellowships and Scholarships / methods*
Humans
New Zealand
Psychiatry / education*