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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Volume 33, 1999 - Issue 6
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Psychiatry of old age: from Section to Faculty

Brian Draper School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Chair, Committee for Advanced Training, Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age. Academic Department for Psychiatry of Old Age, McNeven Dickson Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Rand wick., New South Wales, 2031, Australia [email protected]
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John Snowdon Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Pages 785-788 | Received 28 Jul 1999, Accepted 28 Jul 1999, Published online: 03 May 2010
 

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.

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