National ECT Training Day 2025 Programme
National ECT Training Day
Venue: Online via EventsAir Platform
Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025
The ECT Annual Training Day 2025 is primarily aimed at consultants, residents in higher training and SAS doctors from all psychiatric subspecialties, who wish to enhance their working knowledge of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Residents in core training in psychiatry and other resident doctors are also welcome to attend, although the next planned Training Day, in spring 2026, will be preferentially aimed at residents in core training.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the evidence for the beneficial and adverse effects of ECT in various mental disorders.
- Increase knowledge of the assessments and monitoring required for patients receiving ECT.
- Improve understanding of the legal framework relevant to ECT practice.
- Become familiar with patient perspectives on ECT.
- Learn from discussion of complex presentations that might require ECT.
Contact us
e: events@rcpsych.ac.uk
t: 0208 618 4244
Please note that the programme is still subject to change and all times are listed in GMT.
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9.00am – 9.15am
Welcome
9.00am Welcome
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10.00am – 10.30am
Session 1
- 10.30am – 11.00am Morning break
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11.00am – 12.00pm
Session 2
Chair: Professor George Kirov
11.00am Relapse prevention (including maintenance/continuation)
11.30am Adverse effects and monitoring
- 12.00pm – 1.00pm Lunch
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1.00pm – 2.45pm
Session 3
Chair: TBC
1.00pm Anaesthesia and ECT
1.30pm A Patient's Perspective of Risk Assessment
2.00pm Legal framework across four nations: MHA/MCA and equivalent - 2.45pm – 3.15pm Afternoon break
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3.15pm – 5.00pm
Session 4
Chair: Dr Girish Kunigiri
3.15pm Quality improvement in ECT
Professor Julie Langan Martin and Dr Vimal Sivasanker
4.00pm Complex cases discussion
Professor Julie Langan Martin and Dr Girish Kunigiri
4.45pm Closing remarks
- 5.00pm Close of day
To encourage open dialogue, scientific discovery and enrich learning, we provide our delegates with the opportunity to hear from a diverse range of views and presentations. All the speakers, panellists and participants views and comments are their own and not the established views of the College. Speakers should expect probing questions and healthy debate.
The College expects all content of event programmes, and the behaviour of the speakers and the delegates, to be professional, respectful and to uphold the College values.
The College does not endorse any programme content or behaviour displaying any form of prejudice or discrimination.
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