Describes approaches to workplace based assessment systems around the world, provides practical advice regarding implementation and makes recommendations for future developments.

Preface; 1. Workplace based assessments in psychiatry: setting the scene Amit Malik and Dinesh Bhugra; 2. Methods of workplace based assessments: an overview Amit Malik and Dinesh Bhugra; 3. Assessing the patient perspective Jim Crossley; 4. Experience of WPBA in the UK Andrew Brittlebank; 5. Assessing residents' competencies: challenges to delivery in the developing world: need for innovation and change Santosh Chaturvedi, Prabha Chandra and Jagadisha Tirthahalli; 6. In-training assessment: the Danish experience Charlotte Ringsted; 7. US experience of changing roles Richard Summers; 8. Assessment of psychiatric competence in the USA Joan Anzia and John Manring; 9. The Australian and New Zealand experience Christine Spratt, Philip Boyce and Mark Davies; 10. The Canadian experience Karen Saperson and Richard Swinson; 11. Workplace based assessment in psychotherapy: a Canadian experience Priyanthy Weerasekera; 12. Assessments and their utility: looking to the future Valerie Wass; Index.