
This conversation should encourage trainees and fellows of any gender to ask, if they don’t know of any trans or non-binary trainees, why is that? Zoe and Theo were interviewed by Associate Trainee Editor Michael Weightman and Trainee Editor Oliver Robertson at Congress 2022, Sydney. They also speak to signals of change and of allies in unexpected places. Zoe and Theo explore these in depth being pathologized, excluded, and othered. In years gone by, and indeed even now, there are risks associated with this visibility. As trans and non-binary people respectively, they are living, working, and training openly in psychiatry. They can be contacted via email on ĭr Zoe Kristensen and Dr Theo McTigue are pioneers. There is now a support group for gender diverse trainees and fellows in RANZCP. Zoe and Theo were interviewed by Associate Trainee Editor Michael Weightman and Trainee Editor Oliver Robertson at Congress 2022, Sydney.

This conversation highlights the necessity of including their voices in creating a safer future. They also summarise approaches to the treatment of mental illness within this vulnerable population across the globe. With the authority of lived experience, Zoe and Theo offer a critique of psychiatry’s historical mistreatment of gender diversity, placing this in the sociocultural context of the day. Treatment being discussed in the broadest sense of the word. The second instalment from Dr Zoe Kristensen and Dr Theo McTigue shifts focus from training to treatment of trans and non-binary people. Ashna and Ed are interviewed by Trainee Editor Oliver Robertson, Editorial Committee Member Michael Weightman and Deputy Editor Andrew Amos. Ashna and Ed discuss their backgrounds, what the interview and appointment process to the position was like, and how they look forward to contributing to both the podcast and the Australasian Psychiatry journal across 2023. Ed is a stage two trainee originally from Adelaide but now living in Auckland. Ashna is a stage two trainee working in Sydney. In this episode, we welcome and introduce Australasian Psychiatry’s two new Associate Trainee Editors for 2023 - Dr Ashna Basu and Dr Ed Miller. Expert mental health information and finding a psychiatrist in Australian or New Zealand is available on the RANZCP’s Your Health In Mind Website.
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In his day job, Nick is Clinical Lead of the Mental Health Patient Safety Program at the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission. The discussion ranges from the history of the RANZCP OSCE examinations, why the recent changes were enacted, and future directions for the centrally administered examinations.ĭr Nick O’Connor has been a RANZCP Board Director since 2017 and is Chair of the College’s Education Committee. In this two part episode, recorded at the RANCZP 2023 annual congress in Perth, Dr Nick O’Connor, RANZCP Board Director and head of the RANZCP Education Committee, discusses these changes with Australasian Psychiatry’s Trainee Editor, Dr Ed Miller. The RANZCP has recently stopped conducting OSCE examinations in the hope of diversifying the examination and assessment pathway. We hope that The Thought Broadcast can be an interactive experience with trainees from across Australia and New Zealand getting involved, and shaping the podcast in the direction that will benefit them the most. As The Thought Broadcast develops, we hope to expand the podcast to discuss a wide range of research-related content with other trainees and early career psychiatrists.
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Additionally, to complement the podcast series and better support trainees, we will hear from consultant psychiatrists who are experienced in publishing and research, and in supervising and examining the Scholarly Project. We will focus on some of the stories behind successful projects, including how the authors came up with ideas and transformed these into published research. It is produced by psychiatry trainees, for trainees, with a particular focus on the Scholarly Project and trainee research.The Thought Broadcast primarily aims to demystify the Scholarly Project and humanise research by sharing the trainee experience. The Thought Broadcast is a regular podcast linked to the RANZCP’s journal, Australasian Psychiatry.
