Readership: All psychiatry trainees taking the new MRCPsych exam. It will also appeal to Foundation Year doctors considering taking the exam or considering psychiatry as a career.
Lena Palaniyappan, Academic Clinical Fellow, Institute of Neurosciences, Newcastle University and Specialty Registrar, Royal Victoria Infrimary, Newcastle, UK, and Rajeev Krishnadas, Specialist Trainee in Child Psychiatry, Fleming Nuffield Unit, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Paper 1 1: Psychopathology 2: Psychology 3: Psychopharmacology 4: Clinical skills 5: Core psychiatric principles 6: History and social psychiatry Paper 2 1: Neurosciences 2: Genetics 3: Statistics and research methodology 4: Advanced psychology 5: Clinical psychopharmacology 6: Clinical adult psychiatry Paper 3 1: Evidence based medicine including statistics 2: Liaison psychiatry 3: Addictions and forensic 4: Old age psychiatry 5: Child psychiatry 6: Learning disability 7: Miscellaneous topics
