PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast
This podcast is written and produced by psychiatry residents at the University of Toronto and is aimed at medical students and residents. Listeners will learn about fundamental and more advanced topics in psychiatry as our resident team explore these topics with world-class psychiatrists at U of T and abroad.
Episodes
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of extrapyramidal symptoms.
Hosts:
Jo Kikukawa (MS2)
Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1)
Sena Gok (Scientist)
Audio Editing: Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1)
References:
Dayalu, P., & Chou, K. L. (2008). Antipsychotic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms and their management. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 9(9), 1451–1462. https://doi....
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers interventional psychiatry with Dr. Sean Nestor, an interventional psychiatrist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Assistant Director of the Psychiatry Program and oversees the Clinician Researcher Track (CResT) residency within the Department of Psychiatry. His research program at Sunnybrook...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Hosts:
Eric Yu (MS3)
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5)
Audio Editing:
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
References:
1. Park, J., Tan, J., Krzeminski, S., Hazeghazam, M., Bandlamuri, M., & Carlson, R. W. (2017). Malignant catatonia warrants early psychiatric‐critical care ...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers Working with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Emergency Department with Dr. Bruce Fage, a psychiatrist in Toronto working in emergency and acute care psychiatry, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. His interests include the relational and systems issues that shape psychiatric care in crisis settings. H...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of serotonin syndrome.
Hosts:
Eric Yu (MS3)
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5)
Audio Editing:
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
References:
1. Boyer, E. W. (2024). Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity). In UpToDate.
2. Buckley, N. A., Dawson, A. H., & Isbister, G. K. (2014). Serotonin syndrome. Bmj, 348.
3. Dun...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This is our second book club episode centered around the novel Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel, MD.
This book is a part memoir / part manifesto written by one of our generation’s most important leaders in neuroscience and psychiatry, Dr. Thomas Insel. Dr. Insel served as the director of the NIMH for 13 years f...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers harm reduction principles.
Hosts: Dr. Andrew Nguyen, Dr. Zakia Hussain, and Shelly Palchik
Audio editing: Dr. Kate Braithwaite
Episode Evaluation: Dr. Angad Singh
Resources:
Chapter 4: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders. In Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers psychiatry and ethics in the Ontario context with Dr. Suze Berkhout, a clinician investigator and practicing psychiatrist working in acute inpatient psychiatry at University Health Network. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the department of psychiatry and affiliate faculty with the Institute for the ...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of sleep hygiene.
Hosts: Jo Kikukawa (MS2) and Grant Yao (MS4)
Audio editing: Grant Yao
Timestamps:
(0:33) - Background
(2:07) - Core principles and strategies
(5:37) - Counselling on sleep
(6:18) - When to get help with sleep
(7:29) - Summary
References:
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Sleep disorders. CAMH.
- ...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers Types of Substances
Hosts: Sara Abrahamson, Shaoyuan Wang and Kate Braithwaite.
Audio Editing: Kate Braithwaite
References:
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5, text revision (DSM-5-TR). 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association Publishing...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers the psychiatric case presentation with Dr. Justin Delwo, a staff psychiatrist at Toronto Western Hospital where he works in the emergency department and urgent care settings.
The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:
- What is the goal of a psychiatric case presentation?
- What are some ground rules for a case presen...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers how to take a substance use history
Hosts: Dr. Andrew Nguyen, Dr. Zakia Hussain, Jo Kikukawa, and Dr. Kate Braithwaite.
Audio editing: Dr. Kate Braithwaite
Resources:
Chapter 4: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders. In Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers Functional Neurological Disorder with Dr. Patricia Rosebush. Dr. Rosebush is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. She is the distinguished author of numerous articles on clinical neuroscience, including considerable work on mitochondrial disorders in mental illness a...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers metabolic monitoring for patients on antipsychotic medications.
Hosts: Grant Yao (MS4) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Timestamps:
(0:21) - Background
(2:22) - Monitoring for metabolic side effects
(6:16) - Managing metabolic side effects
(9:50) - Summary
References:
Agarwal, S. M., Stogios, N., Faulkner...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode is part of the PsychEd Book Club, a forum where we discuss books of interest to psychiatry learners from a variety of disciplines. We invite you to read along with us and contribute to our discussion.
This short introductory episode gives you a heads-up about our upcoming book club on Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Heal...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers goals of care conversations.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Tavis Apramian, a clinician-investigator in the Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto and scientist in the Office of Education Scholarship. He works as a palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and at Kensington...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of electroconvulsive therapy.
Hosts: Ravi Bhindi (CC3), Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Audio Editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Show Notes: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Time Stamps:
(0:36) - What is ECT?
(2:18) - Indications and efficacy
(4:35) - Treatment course
(4:32) - Combination treatment
(6:33) - Medications to dis...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers exercise as a treatment for depression.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Nicholas Fabiano, a third-year psychiatry resident at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the overlap between mental and physical health, particularly lifestyle measures that can be used to improve mental health, including exercise, diet, an...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the mental status exam.
Hosts: Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Episode Evaluation: Shelly Palchik (MS4)
Timestamps:
(0:20) Basics of the mental status exam
(2:05) Appearance
(4:00) Behaviour
(5:00) Cooperation
(6:20) Speech
(7:18) Emotions
(9:12) Perception
(10:1...
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers South Asian mental health with Dr. Farooq Naeem, a senior scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Naeem pioneered techniques for culturally adapting CBT. These techniques ...
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