Overview

Medicine is the application of the best evidence to improving patients' health. However, publication bias and other systematic errors exist in the scientific literature and clinical guidelines. 

This session will comprise a short update about research integrity activity within the College, followed by personal stories from individuals with lived experience of apparent poor institutional integrity, affecting the content of national guidelines. This is relevant to every clinician. We will then host a panel discussion.

Speakers

Chair: Dr William Lee, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Antipodean antipathy

Professor Gin Malhi, University of Sydney, Australia

Arguable atypicals 

Professor Stephen Lawrie, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Concluding thoughts

Professor Kenneth Kaufman, Rutgers University, US

Overview

What effective leadership and management training looks like in practice is often hard to describe but much better to experience. This workshop aims to deliver to all doctors working in mental health just this – an interactive mini leadership module. We will emulate the format of the teaching days of the RCPsych Leadership and Management Fellowship Scheme (LMFS), to structure this masterclass.

Alex Till, Programme Director of the RCPsych LMFS will chair this workshop and field questions. Firstly, we will ‘learn from leaders’ with an interview of Suhana Ahmed, Chair of RCPsych London Division by Subha Thiyagesh, Medical Director, South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust.

Secondly, Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan will provide a ‘theory burst’ where there will be some focused teaching on how we can manage projects as doctors. Lastly, Ross Runciman, will facilitate a reflective interactive exercise for attendees to the workshop for them to understand more about their values, strengths and aspirations to help them on their leadership journeys.

Learning objectives:

Speakers

Chair: Dr Alex Till, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and RCPsych Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme Programme Director

Learning from leaders

Dr Subha Thiyagesh, Medical Director, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

How we can manage projects as doctors

Dr Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and module lead for RCPsych LMFS

Reflective interactive exercise for attendees to the workshop for them to understand more about their values, strengths and aspirations to help them on their leadership journeys 

Dr Ross Runciman, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and Education lead for RCPsych LMF

Overview

Receiving an invitation can be exciting but daunting to any researcher, particularly to those early on in their academic careers.

This fringe session aims to demystify peer review and give delegate a practical and up-to-date tips and signposts to resources that will help you review a paper more effectively, with more confidence.

The session will be facilitated by BJPsych Journal Editors and members of the Journals' New Reviewer Programme working group and will include real examples of papers and actual reviewer comments that were submitted for them.

Speakers

Chair: Patricia Casey, University College Dublin, Ireland

Richard Duffy, Rotunda Hospital, Ireland

Humma Andleeb, Univeristy College London, United Kingdom

This session will screen Khaldoon's 23 minute film “John Meyer Ward” and focus on the oral history of buildings. We will discuss the past and recent history of psychiatry with Dr Aileen O'Brien, from Springfield Hospital and the communicative power of film, with Dr Peter Byrne.

John Meyer Ward was the psychiatric intensive care at Springfield Hospital, demolished in 2018. Khaldoon was funded by the National Lottery to record the memories of staff and patients there. 

Although the film is about a specific place, it represents the histories of similar Victorian asylum buildings across the UK that are no longer in use. These buildings contained many, often painful, stories. The film is now installed at the Museum of the Mind, at the Royal Bethlam Hospital.

Speakers

Chair: Dr Khaldoon Ahmed, East London Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

The Springfield Asylum

Dr Aileen O'Brien, South West London St Georges NHS Trust, United Kingdom

Film and psychiatry

Dr Peter Byrne, East London NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

Through the Psychiatrists Support Service (PSS) we are aware that some psychiatrists with a lived experience of mental illness wish to use their experiences to change the systems where many of us work. This workshop will provide a facilitated discussion where we can openly discuss some of these suggestions and make in an impact to the workplace.  

The workshop will take the format of a large group, facilitated by psychiatrists with experience in this area. RCPsych Registrar Dr Trudi Seneviratne OBE, as College officer with oversight of the work of the PSS, will chair the session.