title: Introducing a competency based Fellowship programme for psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to summarise the new psychiatry Fellowship programme and its rationale, highlighting the new inclusions, revised assessment structure, the benefits and structure of the programme.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The 2012 Fellowship programme is based on the CanMEDs educational framework. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) underwent a comprehensive process, adapting the CanMEDs competencies to a psychiatric framework and mapping the curriculum to Fellowship competencies, learning outcomes and developmental descriptors of the various stages of training. The 2012 Fellowship programme introduced summative entrustable professional activities (EPAs), formative workplace-based assessments (WBAs) and revised external assessments.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, and; Director of Training, Psychiatry Training Centre, Macquarie Hospital, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jurd
authors.affiliation: Clinical Training Director, Clinical Education and Training Unit and Specialist (Consultation-Liaison psychiatry), Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: de Beer
authors.affiliation: RANZCP Education Committee Chair and Development and Delivery Lead, Health System Innovation and Improvement, Ko Awatea, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aimer
authors.affiliation: Research and Reporting Officer, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Scott.Fletcher@ranzcp.org.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.affiliation: General Manager, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Australia.
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Halley
authors.affiliation: Former Training and Continuing Medical Education Manager, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schapper
authors.affiliation: Project Manager - Competency-based Fellowship Program, Education and Training Department, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Orkin
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D004493:Education; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*
keywords: CanMEDs; RANZCP; competency; education; psychiatry; training