National Trainees' Conference 2024 - Next Generation

The annual Psychiatric Trainee Conference, held in collaboration with the Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC), will be held in the energetic city of Leeds on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 April 2024.

The PTC would be delighted to welcome you to this two-day conference, taking place at the dynamic and conveniently located Cloth Hall Court, University of Leeds.

This year, with the theme Next Generation, the conference will consider the future care of patients, as well as what the role of psychiatrists may be in the coming decades. We will also look at how to make psychiatry a sustainable, rewarding lifelong career.

Keynote presentations and workshops will include:

• Innovative treatments in psychiatry including the role of digital technologies
• Emerging sub-specialities
• Research and training that informs improved patient care and treatment
• Incorporating nature-based activities and sustainability into our work and clinical practice
• Navigating a dynamic and diverse career in psychiatry

The programme will link seamlessly with HLOs for psychiatry trainees and attendance can be included in your Personal Development Plan.

Programme now available 

We are delighted to announce the following speakers have been confirmed:

• Dr Wendy Burn, Consultant Psychiatrist, previous President of RCPsych
• Dr Dimitrios Chartonas, Consultant Psychiatrist
• Dr Anna Cheetham, Consultant Psychiatrist
• Professor Peter Coventry, Professor of Environment and Health, University of York
• Professor John Crichton, RCPsych Treasurer
• Professor Subodh Dave, RCPsych Dean
• Dr Christiana Elisha-Aboh, Consultant Psychiatrist
• Dr Paul Emmerson, General Adult Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist
• Dr Matthew Gaskell, Consultant Psychologist, Gambling services
• Dr Nazish Hashmi, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
• Dr Charlotte Heaps, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Medical Lead for AMHAT
• Dr Pearl Hettiaratchy, former RCPsych Vice President, Older Adult Psychiatry Consultant
• Dr Becky Inkster, Neuroscientist and researcher University of Cambridge
• Dr Philippa Mason, SAS doctor, Gender Identity Clinic
• Professor Femi Oyebode, Consultant Psychiatrist
• Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa, Consultant Psychiatrist / senior lecturer
• Dr Inti Qurashi, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
• David Rogalski, Lead Pharmacist
• Dr Ross Runciman, Consultant Psychiatrist, Digital SIG member
• Dr Asilay Seker, CAMHS Specialty Registrar, Editor of The Registrar Magazine
• Professor Piyal Sen, Medical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, RCPsych Chair for the Special Committee on Human Rights 
• Dr Rachel Thomasson, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist / Appraisal lead for Neurology Department of Neurology
• Dr Benji Waterhouse, General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist
• Dr Felicity Wood, Consultant Psychiatrist
• Yanar Alkayat, Yoga Therapist
• Anne Burghgraef, Clinical Director, Solace Charity

We like to be as inclusive as we can at all our events by considering all delegates needs. In order to help us ensure that we are aware of any special requirements you may have, and can accommodate for them at this event, please complete this form.

If you have any additional questions or would like to speak to a member of our team please email PTCSupport@rcpsych.ac.uk.

We appreciate that delegates will be travelling to this event from all over the UK and so we have provided links to hotels in the locality that are close to the venue or within reasonable walking distance. We advise booking your accommodation as far in advance as possible to secure the best rate. Unfortunately we do not have any discounted accommodation rates to offer on this occasion.

The Queens Hotel (170 yds from venue)  

The Met Hotel  (70 yds from venue) 

Park Plaza (0.1 miles from venue) 

Premier Inn, Leeds City Centre (0.2 miles from venue)

DoubleTree by Hilton (0.2 miles from venue) 

Raddison Blu Hotel (0.2 miles from venue) 

easyHotel Leeds City Centre (0.3 miles from venue)

Travelodge, Leeds Central (0.3 miles from venue)

Leeds Marriott Hotel (0.3 miles from venue)

The PTC organising committee welcomes poster submissions for this conference under the theme Next Generation.

All posters will be featured digitally, and judged by a panel selected by the PTC organising committee prior to the conference.

Winners will be announced at the conference and the first-place winner will receive a £100 prize.

Please note that accepted applicants will need to pay the conference fee to attend. If there are multiple authors for a poster not all authors have to be delegates. One is sufficient.

Suggested topics:

• sustainability and nature-based interventions
• the role of digital in psychiatry
• new research or QI projects
• patient care
• staff wellbeing

Please ensure submissions meet the following requirements:

• All posters must be in English.
• Abbreviations may be used only if they are defined (spelled out in full text at first mention) followed by abbreviation in brackets.
• Make sure your poster has references, tables or diagrams as needed.
• Posters should be clearly laid out to include the following headings: aims and hypothesis (if relevant), background, methods, results, conclusions and next steps.
• Posters could present either novel findings, new interpretations of existing data or literature reviews; Quality Improvement or Education and Training projects, Research, Service Evaluation/Audit or Case Studies.
• For studies of service users, patients or populations, the number of people studied should be explicitly stated in the methods section.
• Submissions are accepted on the understanding that the work has been performed with the permission of any relevant ethical or legislative body. The authors should therefore ensure the work was conducted with appropriate ethical and governance safeguards.
• All sources of financial sponsorship of the study should be stated at the end of the abstract.
• JPEG, PDF or PowerPoint format.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday 28 March.

Any questions and all poster submissions should be directed to psychtraineeconference@gmail.com.

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