The Non-training Route to the Specialist Register in Psychiatry
How to Make a Successful Application for a CESR and Beyond

The first book to offer guidance on applying for specialist registration in psychiatry via CESR and the journey beyond.

Nandini Chakraborty (Edited by)

9781009197779, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 August 2023

378 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm, 0.46 kg

Substantive consultants in the UK need to be on the GMC specialist register. Non-consultant psychiatrists might work towards the GMC specialist register in psychiatry through various routes, of which CESR is one. This book, written by experts with first-hand experience, provides guidance to doctors planning to use this route. Specialist registration is the acknowledgement of a doctor's expertise in their field and the achievement of competences as outlined in specialist curricula. This book provides a succinct overview of what to expect from the process of applying for CESR, with practical advice on how to submit a successful application. It will appeal primarily to Speciality and Associate Specialist (SAS) Doctors with extensive experience in psychiatry, psychiatrists who have completed their training overseas and wish to practice in the UK, as well as medical managers and educators supporting their workforce towards consultant grade.

Introduction: 1. The stages of application
2. CESR statistics for psychiatry
3. The CESR portfolio: introduction
4. The CESR portfolio: adult psychiatry
5. The CESR portfolio: old age psychiatry
6. The CESR portfolio: CAMHS psychiatry
7. The CESR portfolio: medical psychotherapy
8. The CESR portfolio: forensic psychiatry
9. The CESR portfolio: intellectual disability
10. Additional tips for the CESR portfolio evidence
11. Non-CCT CESR
12. Completing your application
13. Examples from CESR applications: what do evaluators look out for?
14. CESR journeys: what happens after CESR in psychiatry?.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]