The Department of Psychiatry is responsible for specialist education in psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Specialist education in these psychiatric fields aims to provide specialising physicians with the qualifications needed for working in their specialisation in a multidisciplinary manner, maintaining their expertise and operating within the social and health care service system, in addition to which it familiarises them with scientific data. The most significant knowledge content of the comprehensive six-year programme has been determined by a core content analysis, whereas the required skills are determined in the learning outcomes. Professional skills are developed with the help of clinical practice, research method training, clinical contact supervision and personal supervision.
The trunk training stage in the adult, pediatric, adolescent and forensic psychiatry specialisation includes a joint seminar mandatory for those at the trunk training stage of their specialisation. This seminar series comprises a module whose duration is one term.
Specialist education in psychiatry
The beginning of the speciality training stage in the psychiatry specialisation includes a two-year advanced seminar mandatory for those at the speciality training stage of their specialisation. This seminar series consists of four modules focused on one or two central fields in clinical psychiatry.
The seminars are organised every two weeks on Wednesdays at the Christian Sibelius Auditorium of the HUCS Psychiatry Centre. The lectures will be streamed to training locations outside of the University of Helsinki.
The end of the speciality training stage in the psychiatry specialisation includes a two-year university seminar whose target group is hospital physicians specialising in psychiatry at a university hospital clinic.
Specialist education in psychiatry (in Finnish only)
Specialist education in adolescent psychiatry
The speciality training stage in the adolescent psychiatry specialisation includes an advanced seminar mandatory for no less than two years for those at the speciality training stage of their specialisation. The seminars are organised every two weeks on Wednesdays at the HUCS Psychiatry Centre.
Specialist education in adolescent psychiatry (in Finnish only)
Specialist education in forensic psychiatry
The speciality training stage in the forensic psychiatry specialisation includes an advanced seminar mandatory for those at the speciality training stage of their specialisation. The seminars are organised once a month at the Kellokoski Hospital (Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa). The drafting of psychiatric assessments is an organic part of the specialisation in forensic psychiatry (no less than 10 assessments must be completed in the course of the programme).
Specialist education in forensic psychiatry (in Finnish only)
Further information on specialist education can be found on the Faculty of Medicine website.