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Psychiatry of old age: from section to faculty
1School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Academic Department for Psychiatry of Old Age, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia. b.draper@unsw.edu.au
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
|January 5, 2000
Abstract
Objective:
To describe the processes that led to formation of the RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age (FPOA).
Method And Results:
Two criteria needed to be fulfilled before Faculty status could be approved. One was to demonstrate a recognised body of knowledge concerning psychiatry of old age, and the other was to be able to offer a comprehensive training program in this subspecialty.
Conclusions:
On 1 January 1999, FPOA came into existence.