Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care
Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Dr. John Hillery:
One of the issues we might have with that is that we feel psychiatrists need the broadest base of training in medicine because many presentations with mental health problems may be presentations with physical health problems so we need to be fully aware of those. We have shortened the undergraduate medical school curriculum, which should help to shorten things.