Consultant Psychiatrist | Lecturer on global mental health 🌍 | Equality 💪🏻 | ❤️ running, travelling, festivalling | Own views | She/ her 🌈
Portrush, Northern Ireland
Joined August 2013
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Fiona Martin retweeted
The Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Rwanda policy.
Our President @DrLadeSmith says "people seeking asylum need specialist support" while they process trauma and rebuild their lives.
rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…
Any Psychiatrists fancy coming to be my colleague in the beautiful North Coast of N Ireland?? fb.watch/mybW0f5Jha/
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🚨 Important Post Alert 🚨
If you’re a UK Psychiatry Trainee - read on! 👀
As new trainees join, and ARCPs approach for many, it's a good time for us all to have a look at the resources and familiarise ourselves with:
1️⃣ The New Curriculum
2️⃣ High Level Outcomes (HLOs)
3️⃣ Key Capabilities (KCs)
4️⃣ Placement-Specific Personal Development Plans (PSPDPs)
…and then how this is
1) Recorded ✍️ and
2) Mapped 🗺
....in our Portfolios Online ⌨️
📚 Key Documents:
bit.ly/CurrDocs
👾 Online Learning Module
bit.ly/CurrModu
🙋♀️ Frequently Asked Questions
bit.ly/CurrFAQs
Email Us If You Need Help!
📧 [email protected]
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@rcpsych @rcpsychTrainees @PortfolioOnline @subodhdave1 @JARussell13 @RuncimanRoss @Rosie_j_g @gemma_buston
[Note - if you are due to complete CT3, ST6 (on a single CCT training) or ST8 (on dual CCT training), you will still be on the previous curriculum - which can be found here: bit.ly/PrevCurr]
I recommend the podcast ‘Is psychiatry working?’ with @FemiMind to everyone, but particularly psychiatrists. It’s raised some really important points so far bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001h…
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How easy it is for us to deny care…just a few choice words. We must focus less on rejecting, more on helping. @DrChloeBeale Thoughtful, thought-provoking, powerful. As always. @rcpsychEastern @rcpsych @Kallur_Suresh
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What’s the most useful/helpful/healing thing that a mental professional ever said to you (or did for you)?
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🚨 Calling all Psych Trainees!
The Curriculum, (and ∴ Portfolio) have changed for everyone other than trainees who entered either CT3 or ST6 in August - action required!
📆 For Qs - Drop-In Session RE: Portfolio/Curriculum
To access, click : bit.ly/PortfolioDropIn1
Hi I’m Fiona 👋🏻. I’m a general adult psychiatrist in a CMHT in N Ireland. I feel very lucky to genuinely love my job (most of the time anyway!)
Welcome to the @rcpsychtrainees Twitter Takeover! Over the next hour, we are going to ask our fantastic tweeters questions about their jobs and training – to start we will ask our tweeters to introduce themselves… #choosepsychiatry @rcpsych @Choose_Psych @Doctamooa
The treatment gap for mental illness remains >50% globally (& ~90% in LMICs), therefore widening access to mental health care must be a priority. We must lobby those in power to prioritise mental health #choosepsychiatry
Q4/ Mental illness is a global problem. How can the psychiatrists of the future improve the well-being of our population, and what challenges might they face? Don’t forget to use #choosepsychiatry in every tweet! 🧠⭐️ @Choose_Psych @rcpsych @chriswalshpsych @gemma_buston
Always listen to the experiences of patients who have seen mental health services, particularly those who have had bad experiences, & try learn from these in order to help improve the quality of mental health care. #choosepsychiatry
Q3/ If you could give one piece of advice to somebody thinking about or currently training in psychiatry what would it be? NB, we want replies from our *amazing* #livedexperience colleagues, patients + carers! Use hashtag #choosepsychiatry ⭐️ 🧠 @Choose_Psych @rcpsych @Doctamooa
I have an interest in global mental health, & I had the opportunity to work in a mental health service in Uganda part-way through my psychiatry training. I learnt so much from all the amazing mental health professionals & patients that I met whilst I was there #choosepsychiatry
Q2/ There are lots of opportunities within psychiatry to choose your own path within training and beyond. Can you describe the journey to your current position? Don’t forget to use the hashtag #choosepsychiatry in every tweet! @Choose_Psych @rcpsych
I decided to become a general adult psychiatrist because I like the variety. My favourite thing about being a psychiatrist is hearing patient’s stories #choosepsychiatry
Q1/Psychiatry is a fascinating career! Which speciality do you work in and why did you choose it? What are your favourite things about being a Psychiatrist? #choosepsychiatry @rcpsych @Choose_Psych @Doctamooa
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It's tomorrow night! If you're a psychiatrist, psychiatry trainee, someone interested in the specialty or just want to know more - please join us! We will be live on Twitter from 19:00-20:00 tomorrow! ⏰ 🧠⭐️ #choosepsychiatry
New book ‘Seeking Asylum & Mental Health’ just published 🤓📚. RCPsych members get 30% off @rcpsych asylummentalhealth.uk
Book your place on the THET Annual Conference 2022 celebrating health partnerships, & providing practical guidance on accessing funding & mobilising resources #THETconf eventbrite.co.uk/e/thet-2022…
Check out our systematic review on the important topic of the mental health of adult irregular migrants to Europe that has just been published in the J Immigr Minor Health @SPSashidharan link.springer.com/content/pd…
A privilege to talk about global mental health today to public health students from @AmoudUniversity. Thanks for the invite @JibrilHanduleh
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A great guide to help IMGs navigate some of the peculiarities of living & working in the UK
Delighted that ‘A Guide to Living and Working in the UK for International Medical Graduates’ is now published. Just in time for #RCPsychIC22. Many thanks to everybody who contributed to the guide. Read the guide here: tinyurl.com/5f8jv6zm
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Delighted that ‘A Guide to Living and Working in the UK for International Medical Graduates’ is now published. Just in time for #RCPsychIC22. Many thanks to everybody who contributed to the guide. Read the guide here: tinyurl.com/5f8jv6zm