Free webinars for members

We produce a series of free webinars to support members and trainees.

The webinars cover many different topics of general interest.

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Catch up with all of our free webinars for members. Webinars from the current year are available below. An archive of older webinars from previous years is also available.

Overview

This webinar explains the new digital literacy framework which aims to prepare psychiatrists for working in healthcare in the digital age following from the COVID-19 pandemic. It explored how the new framework focuses on providing psychiatrists with the digital leadership skills to navigate multiple levels in healthcare systems in order to improve patient outcomes, increase clinician efficiency, as well as enabling digital mental health services for patients.

Hear about the next steps and the ongoing work to creating training resources to deliver those capabilities and how psychiatrists are key to influencing the services they work for, and to enhancing the information that is both recorded and used to support care and research.

Programme

  • Introduction - Dr Faith Ndebele (Chair)
  • Why digital literacy is a critical skill for trainees and for the workforce - Dr Subodh Dave
  • RCPsych data and digital literacy standards - Dr Ross Runciman
  • Bringing the data alive to improve patient care - Dr Asif Bachlani
  • Q&A

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Overview

This webinar focussed on the important role of film in mental health to help reach a wider, more diverse population, in the hope this helps normalise mental health in communities and earlier prevention of ill health.

Dr Parvinder Shergill, an award winning filmmaker and NHS Psychiatrist, talked with creatives in the film industry on how we can join forces with Hollywood to help spread awareness in mental health via our cinema screens.

Programme

  • Introduction to Bafta Breakthrough Recommended Filmmaker Dr Parvinder Shergill, career of Film and Mental Health
  • Daddy Blues: Author Mark Williams on the importance of turning his book Daddy Blues into a film
  • Twelve: filmmaker Molly Vandermeer on working with NHS doctors to make mental health films
  • Diversity in mental health and film: BBC Presenter and Filmmaker Juggy Sohal, on the importance of reaching diverse ethnic communities in a creative manner
  • Q&A panel with speakers, chaired by Dr Parvinder Shergill.

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Overview

Sexual harassment is recognised as a form of Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), which acknowledges it as an issue of serious harm, discrimination and a violation of human rights. This remains a major issue for our workforce, with serious implications on health and wellbeing, recruitment and retention and the Gender Pay Gap.

In this webinar we share experiences, survey findings and consider institution-wide solutions, including a live Q&A.

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The webinar focused on the changes in psychiatry due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what that means for the future of the specialty.

The webinar was moderated by Dr Adrian James, RCPsych President, with speakers including:

  • Dr Livia De Picker, Psychiatrist and Postdoc at the University of Antwerp and the President-elect of the Belgian College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Dr Marisa Casanova Dias, President of the UEMS Psychiatry Section, Research Fellow and Consultant Psychiatrist at Cardiff University
  • Hilkka Kärkkäinen, past-President of the Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks-Europe
  • Professor Brenda Penninx, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam, UMC
  • Professor Norman Sartorius, former director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Division of Mental Health, and a former President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association.

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CCQI webinars

The teams in our College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) department have produced a wide range of free webinars which members may be interested in.

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