Trainees are during there residency under a lot or pressure. In there first years of training they are busy to adapt to the sometimes extreme circumstances: dealing with complicated patients, who struggle with depressions, psychoses, drugs and suicidal ideas; the trainee will be overwhelmed. How to deal with al these problems in the difficult field of psychiatry?

In the years of training the trainees have to learn to deal with these new responsibilities. If not, they might not survive the training program. Therefore they have to learn not to deal with al these problems by them selves, but to share there experiences with there nearest colleagues in a save environment: the peer group. Such a peer group can be used as a tool to survive but also gives the resident the possibility to keep the joy in the daily work.

This presentation will show the attendees how to built a ‘strong’ peer group, that will help them to keep up during residency and to learn to deal with the responsibility of their daily work. The peer group will also learn the trainee how to help to train the trainee to be a trainer during these sometimes difficult times.