The 1987 Trainees' Forum took place at the College's Winter Quarterly Meeting on 27 January 1987. The Meeting was attended by 43 psychiatrists, of whom 18 were consultants and seven of those were tutors. The Panel members at the Forum were: Dr J. L. T. Birley, Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Professor Robert Cawley, the current Chief Examiner, who both gave short introductory talks; Professor H. G. Morgan, Deputy Chairman of the Examiners' Board of the College; Dr Sally Pidd, Chairman of the Psychiatric Tutors Sub-Committee; Dr Jan Falkowski, Senior House Officer at St George's Hospital London and Dr Peter Rice, Vice-Chairman of the Collegiate Trainees' Committee. The contributors were chosen to represent the range of interested parties; the examiners, the tutors, the College Approval teams and, of course, the candidates.

In October 1986 the Section for the Psychiatry of Mental Handicap held a day conference about the teaching of mental handicap at St George's Hospital Medical School, London.