The paper investigates the characteristics of psychiatric residency in Croatia. During 1998 psychiatric residents were sent an anonymous questionnaire with questions related to obligatory training program in psychiatry according to regulations, control system, personal satisfaction, quality, supervising system, mentor, lectures, scientific work and literature. Data were analyzed by percentage analyses and chi square method. The results show some difficulties in respecting the obligatory program during the residency, insufficient supervision of clinical work, irregular consultation with mentor and unspecified educational material. Residents propose better program transparency, possibility to choose between the institutions, standardization of the program, precise definition of the mentor and supervision. Implementation of more transparent methods in the quality control of the training in psychiatry, as well as the importance of harmonization of psychiatric training in Croatia within UEMS requirements is suggested.