3rd Psychiatry for IMGs course

1st June 2024, 09:00 – 17:00 (Online)

Attendees will be given a Certificate of Participation at the end of the course, which is equivalent to 6 hours of CPD credit.

Starting a job in Psychiatry in the NHS can be daunting for both recent graduates and experienced clinicians who qualified from a foreign medical school.

This course aims to support you to plug any practice gaps you may have in your first job in Psychiatry – whether working as a junior doctor on an inpatient Psychiatry ward or working alongside other mental health professionals in the community.

Who should attend?

If you have started or are about to start a job in Psychiatry – whether as a: 

• Psychiatry Trainee
• Foundation Training Doctor
• General Practice Trainee
• Trust or Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry
• Locum Doctor in Psychiatry

On this course, you will gain confidence in the management of:

Depression

Self-Harm & Suicidality 

Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder

Bipolar Affective Disorder 

Psychosis 

Alcohol and substance misuse 

Dementia 

Mental Capacity Assessment

And much more

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the organisation of mental health services in the UK.
• Discuss the criteria for the diagnoses of several common presentations is psychiatry and justify the management plan for these at the level expected of a Foundation Year 2 or Core Psychiatry Trainees Year 1 – EUPD, Self-Harm, Suicidality, Depression, Bipolar disorder, Psychosis.
• Discuss the prescription for a patient with acute alcohol withdrawal.
• Discuss the management of a patient with substance misuse on a psychiatry ward.
• Explain how to complete a Mental State Examination.
• Explain how to complete a Mental Capacity Assessment.

This is what participants said:

”The course was presented in a simplified and easily understandable way”

”The lecturers were very knowledgeable and most encouraged participation”

“The variety of speakers; it gave different perspectives of the topics”

“I found the topics relevant for my practice”

“I loved how all the topics were detailed”

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