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1. A very personal view & reflection on what happened at the #RCPsychIC AGM when members of the @rcpsych were asked to vote on a proposal to finally give #SASdoctors voting rights. It has been 5 days since, but I think there are issues & lessons worth discussing & reflecting on.
2. Learning the proposal would be voted at the AGM was a surprised for everyone, a +ve one for SAS doctors, but just a surprise for others. Some were not even aware we don't have voting rights, but the majority seemed to be upset they were not given enough time to process this.
3. However, it seemed the main unpleasant surprise was the proposal on granting post nominal titles to other non MRCPsych, yet paying members of the college, something that created great uproar. Although we understood the disagreement, some comments were very dismissal...
Session S39 at #RCPsychIC is on ‘Precision medicine and personalised healthcare in psychiatry’ and is chaired by @RachelUTG.
This topic is the subject of a (free-to-view) @TheBJPsych themed issue:
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This topic is the subject of a (free-to-view) @TheBJPsych themed issue:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
First up in this session is Dr Rajeev Krishnadas (@WalkKD) from University of Glasgo. He was a guest editor for the BJPsych Special Issue and is talking about five points to consider when reading a translational machine learning paper.
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Starts off with explaining what ‘machine learning’ is with a definition of:
“Set of approaches that estimate the best mathematical/statistical model that explain or predict the relationship between ‘variables’”
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“Set of approaches that estimate the best mathematical/statistical model that explain or predict the relationship between ‘variables’”
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Been asked for data sources re my #suicideprevention talk at #RCPsychIC. Mainly @ONS & my research unit @NCISH_UK - link to our website.
Short 🧵 on our research findings.
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
Short 🧵 on our research findings.
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
First, important reminder that graphs & data represent real lives lost, families devastated.
Our national study of suicide in CYP, almost 600 deaths over 3 yrs, based on data from inquests & other official sources.
Shows rapid rate rise in late teens & important stresses such as bullying, suicide bereavement & exams.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Shows rapid rate rise in late teens & important stresses such as bullying, suicide bereavement & exams.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
I'm receiving some concern from trainees @rcpsychTrainees and consultants @rcpsych about the proposed changes to use of #RCPsych in titles ("postnominals"), & accessibility of #AGM at #RCPsychIC. Information not easy to find so let me try to describe (Conflict of Int: FRCPsych)
Currently "MRCPsych" aka membership is used by doctors who have passed College #exams, and FRCPsych used by Fellows -essentially more senior members. These are the only 2 postnominals and have some other conditions. There are other ways of associating with the RCPsych though...
Specialist Associates @rcpsych are experienced psychiatrists in the UK,on the GMC specialist register but without the MRCPsych exams (eg if trained abroad to consultant level). Proposals introduce "SpARCPsych" and use FRCPsych for senior SpA (so FRCPsych no longer = passed exams)
Join us now in the auditorium of Virtual Congress to see one of our last talks of the day: "How to work with homeless people" #RCPsychIC
The agenda on today's talk is "Making services work for homeless people" with Dr Philip Timms @philip_timms a Consultant psychiatrist at the National Psychosis Service #RCPsychIC
After that, we have "Trauma-focussed practice with homeless people" with Dr Peter Cockersell @petercockersell the Chief Executive at Community Housing and Therapy #RCPsychIC
Our final session of #RCPsychC virtual Congress we are talking about Religious Delusions and Hallucinations: Significance, meaning, and narrative with Dr Alison J Gray @revdraligray, Professor Christopher C.H. Cook @cchcook and Dr Angela Woods @literarti
In one of our final split session talks of #RCPsychIC 2021, we'll be hearing from @RachelUTG, @PsychMarwaha and @sameerjauhar, chaired by Professor Allan Young: Care of Adult Mental Ill-Health: Getting it right from the start.
@RachelUTG @PsychMarwaha @sameerjauhar The first talk comes from @RachelUTG. Interesting findings regarding clozapine in treating first episode psychosis. #RCPsychIC
@RachelUTG @PsychMarwaha @sameerjauhar "Can we use anti-depression medication in a more thoughtful way?" asks @RachelUTG at #RCPsychIC
So -we're nearly at the end of our first virtual #RCPsychIC - but there's one more set of split sessions to go! On this thread you can follow the 57th split session of this amazing event, which is about Dual Diagnosis from the public, clinical + academic perspective.
Our first speaker is Caroline Turiff, who has been diagnosed with a range of conditions inc OCD and PTSD, and is an award winning investigative broadcast journalist. #RCPsychIC
I've read 70% of people with drug dependency who have a dual diagnosis so it is the norm for them, she says. #RCPsychIC
We're approaching the end of a busy #RCPsychIC, but still time for more talks! Session S49 is on 'Clinical applications of new genetic findings'.
The first speaker is Professor James Walters of @cardiffuni talk title 'Psychiatric Genetics: Recent findings and their clinical potential'.
Find out more about Professor Walters' research: cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/12…
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Find out more about Professor Walters' research: cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/12…
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Apologies, first speaker is the session Chair, Professor Louise Gallagher: 'Psychiatric Genetics: Recent findings and their clinical potential'
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Hope everyone had a good lunch! Now we look at the lessons we can learn from the 'asylum era', chaired by @DianeGoslar, an expert by experience. We'll also hear from @PeterNaxos, @claire_hilton6 and Dr Allan Beveridge. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar @PeterNaxos @claire_hilton6 Change is desperately needed – such as the total dismantling of stigma – but we have evidence change can happen, says @DianeGoslar. One example of change is that Diane, a patient, is chairing this session. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar @PeterNaxos @claire_hilton6 The first story comes from @PeterNaxos, who speaks of Henrietta, a patient in Kingston Asylum, in 1859. She found within herself a resolve she was never aware of, which enabled her to survive a situation which was totally at odds with anything she'd experienced before. #RCPsychIC
We have a couple more sessions to go, so tune into our session: Digital Psychiatry and the service user experience in a pandemic with Dr. Cyrus Abbasian @abbasian, Dr. Mariana Pinto da Costa (from @QMUL) & Millie Smith @milliesmith1979 #RCPsychIC
Dr. Cyrus Abbasian @abbasian will be discussing first
Telepsychiatry in the UK: how digital tech transformed mental health provision
We're moving into the 5th industrial revolution. We are in Internet age soon to become cyber.
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Telepsychiatry in the UK: how digital tech transformed mental health provision
We're moving into the 5th industrial revolution. We are in Internet age soon to become cyber.
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AI will be moving into psychiatry and will cause more scrutiny, which will give better healthcare
#RCPsychIC #AI
#RCPsychIC #AI
This afternoon's #RCPsychIC keynote is by Professor Huda Zoghbi, Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine (@bcmhouston).
Professor Zoghbi is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (@HHMINEWS), and the founding Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. #RCPsychIC
The talk title of Professor Zoghbi's #RCPsychIC keynote is 'Insight into neuropsychiatric disorders from the study of Rett Syndrome'.
You can find out more about their research here: bcm.edu/research/labs-…
You can find out more about their research here: bcm.edu/research/labs-…
We've reached the afternoon of Day 4 of #RCPsychIC - and right now we're anticipating our next keynote, which is titled Rapid-Acting Antidepressants: New treatments, new hope, and new insights into the brain.
Our speaker is one of the most influential psychiatrists in biological psychiatry - Dr John Krystal from @Yale - who says the STAR*D study showed too few saw remission from depression from antidepressants and in other analyses ADs proved less effective than we thought #RCPsychIC
@Yale Why ketamine? We recognised we needed to shift from serotonin targeting the mid brain towards medication to affect the cortex and limbic system, and this led us to ketamine says Dr Krystal #RCPsychIC
Next up we have Prof Cornelius Katona (from @HelenBamber) and Dr Piyal Sen - @piyal_sen talking about Developments in mental healthcare for asylum seekers and refugees in Western countries-the science and the politics: an international perspective #RCPsychIC
Addressing systematic racism is so important #RCPsychIC
"Working around trauma rather than through trauma"
As targeting trauma can be seen as violence in some cultures
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As targeting trauma can be seen as violence in some cultures
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We're set for the second set of split sessions on Day 4 #RCPsychIC and in this thread we're covering 'Different views on violence risk assessments'. First up is @seenafazel looking at myths and evidence abt risk assessment.
@seenafazel The first myth to be debunked: assessment on its own improves outcomes - not true, it needs to be linked to something says @seenafazel #RCPsychIC
@seenafazel Another myth: Risk assessment of violence needs to be focused around needs - no, predictors just need to be good at predicting, says @seenafazel #RCPsychIC
What can we learn from psychiatry in conflict and disaster zones? Three talks from members of the College's Volunteering and International Psychiatry Special Interest Group @psychvolunteer, chaired by Dr Sophie Thomson at #RCPsychIC
@psychvolunteer Starting with @LynneJonespsych, who explains that humanitarian psychiatry in the 90s was much different - 'everyone has PTSD, so let's give them counselling, and that's that'. Even in Iraq 2003, there was plenty of money - but it all went on PTSD. #RCPsychIC
@psychvolunteer @LynneJonespsych Western approaches to psychiatry were often culturally inappropriate - 'talking about feelings' may not work where the norm is rather close family bonds, and stoicism is expected, says @LynneJonespsych at #RCPsychIC
The next parallel session S45 at #RCPsychIC on this last day of Congress is on 'Better Data, Better Care: Improving Quality of Care using Data'.
The first speaker is @stephenwatkinsNHS, Director, NHS Benchmarking Network (@NHSBenchmarking).
Their talk title is 'What NHS Benchmarking Data tells us about the state of mental health services'.
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Their talk title is 'What NHS Benchmarking Data tells us about the state of mental health services'.
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Correction, that's @SteveWatkinsNHS as the Twitter handle. #RCPsychIC
Kickstarting our final day we have a talk on: How to make friends and influence people:A psychiatrists guide to lobbying and campaigning with Dr Jon Goldin - @DrJonGoldin, Sir Norman Lamb - @normanlamb, Luciana Berger - @lucianaberger and Dr Ben Spencer - @DrBenSpencer #RCPsychIC
We had some technical issues - apologies - we are back!
Raising an issue with a politician: @normanlamb - If you are communicating - politicians won't understand complex psychiatry language keep it succinct and clear communicative language #RCPsychIC
One of our parallel sessions at #RCPsychIC that is starting now is on 'Complex journeys from hospital to community', chaired by immediate past president, Professor @wendyburn.
The first speaker is Dr @KenCourtenay, Consultant Psychiatrist at @behmhtnhs and Chair of @rcpsych's Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability. Their #RCPsychIC talk title is ‘Has Transforming Care transformed people’s lives?’
KC: The problem used to be around inpatient admissions. Over the last decade, there have been changes in providers and alternatives to hospital care are available, one of the 'big achievements' from the last 10 years.
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Now for the split sessions! We're looking at the intersection of psychiatry and climate change, in 'Activist psychiatrists and the climate and ecological emergency', with @h_pinto13, @kirstenshukla and @DazeAghaji – chaired by @LynneJonespsych at #RCPsychIC
@h_pinto13 @kirstenshukla @DazeAghaji @LynneJonespsych "There's never been a time when activism wasn't needed," says @LynneJonespsych, and now is an especially crucial time. #RCPsychIC
@h_pinto13 @kirstenshukla @DazeAghaji @LynneJonespsych Now @h_pinto13 talks about the route that led her to having been arrested four times for non-violent protest. Reading the IPCC report left her in tears, especially when considering her children.
It's day 4 #RCPsychIC - the first set of split sessions - and this thread will be concentrating on a clinical update on ADHD across the lifespan - Prof David Baldwin from @unisouthampton is chairing - we have a great set of speakers, this should be good.
@unisouthampton Our first speaker is @srcham whose talk is called 'Practical advice for assessing and understanding ADHD: diagnosis, comorbidities, and biological models'. #RCPsychIC
@unisouthampton @SrCham Current diagnostic criteria: DSM5 criteria says its characterised by inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity - need at least 6 symptoms in one of these 2 domains, @srchamb tells #RCPsychIC
On the last day of Virtual Congress we have our wonderful talk on "Speaking the Unspoken - Culture, Trauma and Perinatal Psychopathology." Here is an outline of what will be covered in the discussion #RCPsychIC
Our speakers today are Dr Regi Alexander @regalexa the Associate Dean for Advanced Learning and Prof Prabha Chandra @globalpmh the Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences #RCPsychIC
Prof Prabha Chandra @globalpmh discusses the effect of historical child abuse on mothers, a pattern that is seen globally. @globalpmh also draws attention to the fact women fear their own child may experience the same abuse #RCPsychIC
We're now into the split sessions #RCPsychIC and this thread is covering The Nature of Suicide and Work with Those Bereaved by a Doctors Suicide - and our first to talk is @ClareGerada - a difficult subject but we have experienced and knowledgeable speakers.
@ClareGerada 'We learn to make our patient our first concern - being a dr is not something you do, it is something you are, and because of that, i think doctors have a higher propensity to kill themselves' says @ClareGerada #RCPsychIC
@ClareGerada There's a lot of research - female drs are 2-4 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population says @ClareGerada - even though we have a host of protected factors, eg job security, good educations, good social networks - so higher rate needs exploring #rcpsychic
We are delighted to be joined by Sophia Frangou - @Frangougroup Argyris Stringaris - @argStringaris and Heather Whalley who will be discussing: Dimensional and Categorical Psychopathology in Youth: Cognitive and Brain
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#RCPsychIC
Presenter Profiles:
Sophia Frangou - @Frangougroup
Argyris Stringaris - @argStringaris
Heather Whalley - @heatherwhalley2
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Sophia Frangou - @Frangougroup
Argyris Stringaris - @argStringaris
Heather Whalley - @heatherwhalley2
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