Dr Cameron Homer

I want to advocate for the resident doctors training to become tomorrow’s consultant psychiatrists; I believe the best way to improve the lives of my colleagues lives is to make meaningful changes through the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

I have an interest in general adult and forensic psychiatry, and I’m looking forward to working at a medium secure unit for my first CT3 rotation. Specifically, I find psychosis and affective disorders fascinating, as well as the intersection of poor mental health and criminality. I have a desire to hone my leadership skills in order to lead departments and units later in my career. 

The issues facing resident doctors that I feel need addressing are:

1. reducing the bottlenecks that resident doctors face during training
2. increasing the quality of learning whilst a resident doctor in psychiatry
3. halting and reversing the replacement of doctors with non-medics, leading to unemployment for resident doctors and a lower standard of care for patients.

I enjoy playing and watching football (longtime Watford FC sufferer, “you ‘Orns”). I keep fit by working out and training for half marathons. I believe it’s important to promote medicine as a career to schoolchildren who may not have considered it, and so I deliver presentations to Y9-13 students from local Midlands schools as well as host group and 1:1 interview tuition sessions for medical school applicants.