Research training is vital

摘要

The major barriers to engaging medical staff in research are lack of research knowledge and skills and pooraccess to research training. Not all future consultants will be involved in primary research, but they will all need to be able to read and appraise the scientific literature and integrate new research findings into clinical practice. This is recognised in the highertraining curriculum for child and adolescent psychiatrists, which since 2010 has included mandatory requirements fortrainees to be able to find and analyse research carried out by others and assimilate this into a (systematic) literature review, written to a publishable standard.