[Training guidelines for linkage psychiatry]

This review is aimed to provide some basic criteria intended to be useful as a C-L training guideline. Teaching foundations for C-L Psychiatry are reviewed and the main features of the training schemes in C-L Psychiatry Services or Units are outlined taking in to considerations the four main perspectives such as clinical, teaching, research and management activities. Furthermore, a core curriculum for a teaching is recommended. Teaching principles for C-L Psychiatry should be meditated; due to the absence of national publications in this specific area, this article might give the opportunity to get started in an open debate. In spite of a worldwide promising future for C-L Psychiatry, in Spain there are still few Services or units developed and fewer of those providing a formal teaching program, so an opportunity for a major shift is served.