Psychiatry Essentials for F2s (463AWP)

AvailabilityCourse has taken place
SubjectF2 Regional Teaching
Description"Mental Health is everyone’s business" – key knowledge to help you in your ongoing career, whatever specialty you go into. This course can be used towards the following Enhance module: patient centred practice, complex multmorbidity, population health
Additional information

A mix of large-group and small-group sessions, to include:

  • Experts by Experience workshop
  • Challenging consultations, conversations and situations
  • Mental State Examination, History Taking and Risk Assessment revision and practice
  • The Mental Health Act for non-psychiatrists
  • "Ask a Psychiatry Trainee" panel

Please note that attendees will need a working camera and microphone, and a private space from which to attend some of the components of the day.

VenueVirtual/Online, Virtual/Online  View details
Date & timeThursday 22 February 2024, 09:30 to 16:30
LecturerTBC  View details
Target audience

Mandatory: Foundation Year 2, or Non-Trainee Grade Junior Doctor

Course styleVirtual/Online
CateringN/A
Core topicCore teaching
CPD hours6:00
CostNo charge
Aims

To develop fundamental psychiatric skills needed by all doctors, aimed at Foundation Doctors who have not had a job in psychiatry.

The day is highly interactive, structured around cases with opportunities to practice skills in small groups settings.

Objectives
  • Be able to confidently undertake a psychiatrically-focussed history, risk assessment and mental state examination in a general medical setting.
  • Be aware of the major medico-legal frameworks (MHA, MCA) and apply these to mental-health problems that may be encountered in the general medical setting.
  • Appreciate the patient perspective and experience of the intersection of mental and physical health problems and care.
  • Recognise possible factors, including stigma, related to challenging situations and know approaches for responding to and de-escalating these.
Learning outcomes

This course links with the following foundation professional capabilities (FPCs):

2 - Clinical prioritisation
3 - Holistic planning
4 - Communication and care
6 - Sharing the vision
11 - Ethics and law

 

Curriculum requirements:

  • Core teaching: mental health including mental illness
  • FPC 1,2,3,4,5

 

Enhance:

  • Person centred practice
  • Complex multimorbidity
  • Population health