Personal Characteristics

Key skills and competencies

You must respect people with learning disabilities to work with them effectively, and value the contribution they make to society.  If you can do this, and enjoy working as part of a multi professional team to help people with complex clinical problems, then Psychiatry of Learning Disability might be the specialty for you.

What other specialties use a similar skill/competence set?

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • General Practice

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